Test 10 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

Looking back: what had Toad promised the engine-driver, though he had «never washed a shirt in his life»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: look back, have, promise, not wash · To what, where: engine driver, shirt, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 61 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	parataxis
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 promised	nsubj
7	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 driver	det
9	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 driver	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 engine	punct
11	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promised	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 promised	parataxis
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 washed	punct
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 washed	advmod
18	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shirt	det
20	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 washed	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 washed	obl
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past					tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	Toad		the engine driver		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent driver=Theme
4	have	past	Toad				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not wash in a quote	past	Toad not said here	a shirt		Toad's life	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient

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

To wash his own clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wash	mark
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 clothes	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clothes	amod
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		his own clothes					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

Option 2

To fix his car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fix	mark
2	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 car	nmod:poss
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	to-infinitive		his car					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent car=Patient

Option 3

To mend his old coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 mend	mark
2	mend	mend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coat	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coat	amod
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	to-infinitive		his old coat					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To wash some of his shirts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wash	mark
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 wash	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 shirts	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shirts	nmod:poss
6	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		some					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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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