Test 12 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

Looking back: in chapter I, the Rat said there is nothing «half so much worth doing as» what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, doing · What happens: look back, say, be, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rat	det
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chapter	parataxis
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 worth	cop
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 is	nsubj
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 half	punct
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 nothing	appos
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 worth	advmod
18	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
19	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 worth	csubj
20	as	as	ADV	_	19 doing	advmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 as	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 doing	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Rat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	doing	worth property	tree rules
4	do in a quote	gerund			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

«Simply messing about in boats»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 messing	punct
2	Simply	simply	ADV	_	3 messing	advmod
3	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 boats	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 boats	case
6	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 messing	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 messing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess in a quote	gerund						about boats; simply property	tree rules

Option 2

Walking along the riverbank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 riverbank	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 riverbank	det
4	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the riverbank			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along riverbank=Trajectory

Option 3

Simply sailing down the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simply	simply	ADV	_	2 sailing	advmod
2	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund				the river		simply property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent down river=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Simply messing about in boats on the river all summer long with friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simply	simply	ADV	_	2 messing	advmod
2	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 boats	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 boats	case
5	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 messing	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boats	nmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 summer	det
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 messing	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 messing	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 friends	case
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 messing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess	gerund					summer	about boats on the river; with friends; long, simply property	tree rules

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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