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Test 15 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

★★★ «A long half-hour passed.» If Toad lost the soap 50 times in 30 minutes, about how often did he lose it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: pass, lose · To what, where: long half hour, soap

This is test 15 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ «A long half-hour passed.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hour	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 hour	punct
5	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hour	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 hour	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 half	punct
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hour	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hour	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 hour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass in a quote	participle		a long half hour not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: If Toad lost the soap 50 times in 30 minutes, about how often did he lose it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 lost	mark
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lose	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soap	det
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obl:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
9	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lose	punct
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 lose	mark
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 often	advmod
14	often	often	ADV	_	17 lose	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lose	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lose	nsubj
17	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lose	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	Toad	the soap			minute; time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Eventuality
2	lose	past · do-support	Toad	soap				often property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Roughly every two minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	_	4 minutes	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 minutes	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

More than once a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 once	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minute	det
5	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 once	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

Twice a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Twice	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4

Once an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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