Test 3 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

Why does Toad talk about «my married daughter» and «my young children»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: talk

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 talk	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 talk	nsubj
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 daughter	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 daughter	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 daughter	amod
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 daughter	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 children	cc
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 children	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 daughter	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 children	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present · do-support	Toad					about my married daughter and my young children	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about daughter=Topic

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

He is pretending to be a washerwoman, so he invents a family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pretending	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretending	aux
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 washerwoman	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 washerwoman	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 washerwoman	det
7	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretending	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 invents	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 invents	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 invents	nsubj
11	invents	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretending	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invents	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	He		tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	He not said here	a washerwoman	tree rules
3	invent	present	he	a family	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Result

Option 2

He wants her to think he is a respectable family man out walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 man	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	ccomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	5 think	compound:prt
13	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	He	her = she	tree rules
2	think out speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	walking	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	he	a respectable family man	tree rules

Option 3

He is actually a washerwoman whose children were lost in the great flood of last year

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 washerwoman	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 washerwoman	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 washerwoman	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 washerwoman	det
5	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 children	nmod:poss
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lost	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 washerwoman	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 flood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flood	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flood	amod
13	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 year	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 year	amod
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a washerwoman		actually property	tree rules
2	lose	past · passive		children	the great flood of last year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	flood		last year				nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

He is trying to make the lift seem more honest and believable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seem	csubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lift	det
7	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 honest	advmod
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seem	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 believable	cc
12	believable	believable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 honest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	He			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the lift		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lift=Product
3	seem	present	trying		honest property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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