Test 4 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All…

Why does the Mole talk «casually» about the harvest instead of telling the Rat off?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: do, tell off · To what, where: Mole talk

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 talk	det
4	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	compound
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 casually	punct
7	casually	casually	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 casually	punct
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 harvest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 harvest	det
11	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	nmod
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 telling	mark
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 does	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
16	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 telling	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	14 telling	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Mole talk				about the harvest	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality
2	tell off speech: assert	gerund	the Rat						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

To be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 polite	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 polite	cop
3	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						polite property	tree rules

Option 2

Because scolding would make the Rat angry and he would run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 make	mark
2	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 run	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 run	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 run	aux
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	scolding	the Rat				angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rat=Product
2	run off	would	scolding						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Gently turning his mind back to home and its seasons works better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gently	gently	ADV	_	2 turning	advmod
2	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 works	csubj
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mind	nmod:poss
4	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turning	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 turning	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turning	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seasons	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 seasons	nmod:poss
10	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 home	conj
11	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn back	gerund		his mind	home and mind's seasons	gently property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mind=Theme to home=Destination
2	work	present	turning			well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mind		his = he				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Because he was too shy to speak about the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 shy	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 shy	advmod
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 speak	mark
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shy	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					shy property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here					about the sea	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about sea=Topic

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