Test 2 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All…

Which is TRUE about this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about this part; true property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Mole's eyes turn grey and stay that way forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Mole	case
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stay	cc
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl:unmarked
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Mole's eyes					grey property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	infinitive	the Mole's eyes not said here	that way				forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Rat's eyes turn grey like the Sea Rat's, then brown again

The tree, 14 words

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	4 eyes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rat	case
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 Rat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rat	det
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rat	compound
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Rat	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brown	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 brown	advmod
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 brown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Rat's eyes					like the Sea Rat; grey property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They never change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 change	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 change	advmod
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	They						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Sea Rat's eyes turn brown, then grey again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rat	compound
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eyes	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Rat	case
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	nsubj
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grey	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 grey	advmod
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	xcomp
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 grey	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Sea Rat's eyes					brown, grey property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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