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Test 13 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All…

Looking back: in chapter IX, part 2, the swallows said spring calls them back to England. What called the Sea Rat inland?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: swallows, spring · What happens: look back, say, call back, call · To what, where: swallows, England, Sea Rat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 59 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Looking back: in chapter IX, part 2, the swallows said spring calls them back to England.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	IX	ix	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chapter	conj
9	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 part	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swallows	det
12	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 calls	nsubj
15	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 calls	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 calls	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 England	case
19	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 calls	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the swallows not said here					in chapter and part	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the swallows						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call back speech: assert	present	spring	swallows = swallow	England				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to england=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What called the Sea Rat inland?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rat	compound
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
6	inland	inland	ADV	_	2 called	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past			the Sea Rat			inland property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rat=Recipient

The options

Option 1

A letter from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The smell of the first wild flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 flowers	amod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	amod
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		the first wild flowers						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The «first magical hints ... of another Spring»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hints	det
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hints	punct
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 hints	amod
4	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hints	amod
5	hints	hint	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	...	...	PUNCT	_	9 Spring	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Spring	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 Spring	det
9	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hints	appos
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Spring	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The sound of the spring rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 rain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rain	compound
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sound	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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