Test 16 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All…

★★★ The Mole's talk goes: harvest, then apples and nuts, then jams and cordials, then midwinter. Why that order?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Mole · What happens: go, talk · To what, where: harvest

This is test 16 · ★ 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: ★★★ The Mole's talk goes: harvest, then apples and nuts, then jams and cordials, then midwinter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	7 talk	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mole	case
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	obl
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 harvest	punct
10	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 apples	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 apples	advmod
13	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 harvest	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nuts	cc
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 apples	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jams	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 jams	advmod
18	jams	jam	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 harvest	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cordials	cc
20	cordials	cordial	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 jams	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 midwinter	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 midwinter	advmod
23	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 harvest	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	★	harvest and jams and cordials and midwinter				★ the Mole's talk	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk		the Mole						nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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: Why that order?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 order	det
3	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It is random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 random	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 random	cop
3	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					random property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It walks step by step from now towards cosy winter at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walks	nsubj
2	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 step	case
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 now	case
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 walks	obl
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 winter	case
9	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 winter	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	It	step		home	winter	by step	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme by step=Trajectory from now=Initial_Location

Option 3

It starts with the harvest and ends with the sea and the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 harvest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harvest	det
5	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starts	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ends	cc
7	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 starts	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ship	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	It					with the harvest	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with harvest=Subeventuality
2	end	present						with the sea and the ship	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with sea=Subeventuality

Option 4

No reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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