Test 12 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All…
Looking back: in chapter VI, Toad was held down by his friends «for his own good». Who is held down for his own good today?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: look back, hold down · To what, where: Toad
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 60 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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 VI, Toad was held down by his friends «for his own good».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 held | 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 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 chapter | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | aux:pass |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 held | compound:prt |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 held | obl |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 good | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 good | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 held | parataxis |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Toad's friends not said here | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold down | past · passive | Toad's friends | Toad | tree rules |
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: Who is held down for his own good today?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 held | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | aux:pass |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 today | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 today | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 good | amod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 today | amod |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold down | present · passive | today | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Toad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Rat, by the Badger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Badger | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Badger | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Badger | det |
| 6 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Rat, by the Mole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mole | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Mole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mole | det |
| 6 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rat | conj |
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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