Test 8 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

Looking back: in chapter VIII, who helped Toad get the washerwoman's dress?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapter, Toad · What happens: look back, help, get · To what, where: Toad, dress

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	9 helped	csubj
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	9 helped	nsubj
6	VIII	VIII	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helped	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 helped	nsubj
9	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 helped	obj
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helped	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 washerwoman	det
13	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dress	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 washerwoman	case
15	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 helped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	help	past	chapter	Toad	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent toad=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	get	infinitive	Toad not said here	the washerwoman's dress	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus

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 prison chaplain, whose sister ran the laundry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chaplain	det
2	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chaplain	compound
3	chaplain	chaplain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sister	punct
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 sister	nmod:poss
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chaplain	appos
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 laundry	det
9	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the prison chaplain	the laundry					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme laundry=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The gaoler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gaoler	det
2	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The gaoler's daughter, whose aunt was a washerwoman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gaoler	det
2	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gaoler	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 washerwoman	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 aunt	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 aunt	nmod:poss
7	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	conj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 washerwoman	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 washerwoman	det
10	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the gaoler's daughter and the gaoler's daughter and daughter's aunt's aunt	a washerwoman					tree rules

Option 4

A policeman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 policeman	det
2	policeman	policeman	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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