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Test 16 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

★★★ The road is «like a stray dog» and the canal «a shy little brother». Which word describes how the author treats the road and canal here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, word, author · What happens: be, describe, treat · To what, where: road

This is test 16 · ★★ 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: ★★★ The road is «like a stray dog» and the canal «a shy little brother».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dog	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dog	cop
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 dog	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 dog	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
10	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 dog	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 canal	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 canal	det
15	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	conj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 brother	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 brother	det
18	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 brother	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 canal	appos
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 brother	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	★					like a stray dog and the canal	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.

Sentence 2: Which word describes how the author treats the road and canal here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 treats	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 author	det
6	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treats	nsubj
7	treats	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 describes	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treats	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 canal	cc
11	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 road	conj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 treats	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which word						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	treat	present	the author	the road and canal		here			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent road=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

As if they were people or animals with feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	5 people	case
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 people	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 people	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 people	cop
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 animals	cc
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 feelings	case
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					as people or animals; with feelings	tree rules

Option 2

As objects that are only useful for travel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 objects	case
2	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 useful	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 useful	advmod
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 objects	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 travel	case
8	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	objects					for travel; useful property	tree rules

Option 3

Harshly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harshly	harshly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

As if they were ordinary places with no feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	6 places	case
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 places	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 places	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 places	cop
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 places	amod
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 feelings	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 feelings	det
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 places	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					as ordinary places; with no feelings	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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