Test 17 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

★★★ Which of these did Toad NOT tell the barge-woman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: not tell · To what, where: barge woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
4	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 did	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 these	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 Which	nmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
9	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
12	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woman	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 barge	punct
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	★ ★ ★		the barge woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

That he had escaped from prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 escaped	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 escaped	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 escaped	aux
4	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 prison	case
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past · perfect · passive		That		prison			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location

Option 2

That he had a daughter at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 had	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	That	a daughter		home			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 3

That he had been a prisoner in the gaol and had been locked up for weeks

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 prisoner	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prisoner	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prisoner	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 prisoner	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prisoner	det
6	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 gaol	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gaol	det
9	gaol	gaol	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prisoner	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 locked	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 locked	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 locked	aux:pass
13	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 prisoner	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 locked	compound:prt
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 weeks	case
16	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	That	a prisoner		the gaol			tree rules
2	lock up	past · perfect · passive	That not said here				week		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4

That his name was Toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 name	det
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Toad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Toad	cop
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	his name	Toad					tree rules
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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