Test 7 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All…

What would the Sea Rat probably do if the Rat invited him indoors to his cosy parlour?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: do, invite · To what, where: him

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
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	1 What	nsubj
6	probably	probably	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Rat	parataxis
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 invited	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rat	det
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 invited	nsubj
11	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 invited	obj
13	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	11 invited	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 parlour	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 parlour	nmod:poss
16	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 parlour	amod
17	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invited	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	invite a condition, not said to happen	past	the Rat		him = he			to Rat's cosy parlour; indoors property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

The options

Option 1

Sing a sea shanty loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shanty	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shanty	compound
4	shanty	shanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sing	obj
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here	a sea shanty				loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shanty=Theme

Option 2

Refuse at once and sail straight back to the sea before the tide turns and the wind changes

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sail	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 sail	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sail	cc
5	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 sail	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sail	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 turns	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tide	det
13	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turns	nsubj
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sail	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 changes	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wind	det
17	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changes	nsubj
18	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 turns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sail	infinitive	Refuse	the sea	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to sea=Trajectory
2	turn	present	the tide		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	change	present	the wind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Fall asleep within minutes, he says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fall	xcomp
3	within	within	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fall	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fall	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here				minute	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would say no and sail away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 say	discourse
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sail	cc
6	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 sail	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sail away	infinitive	He not said here					away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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