Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…

Looking back: in chapter VIII, what food first began to cheer Toad up in prison?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapter · What happens: look back, food, begin, cheer up · To what, where: Toad, prison

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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	11 began	advcl
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	1 Looking	obl
6	VIII	VIII	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 food	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 food	nsubj
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chapter	conj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 began	advmod
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cheer	mark
13	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cheer	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 cheer	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 prison	case
17	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cheer	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				in chapter and food	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	food		chapter and food				tree rules
3	begin	past				first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cheer up	to-infinitive		Toad	prison		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toad=Patient

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

Toast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A large feast of roast chicken, plum pudding and wine sent in by his friends

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feast	amod
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plum	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chicken	case
5	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chicken	compound
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plum	punct
8	plum	plum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plum	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wine	cc
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pudding	conj
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pudding	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	12 sent	compound:prt
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 friends	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plum	infinitive	a large feast of roast chicken	pudding and wine					tree rules
2	send in	participle		pudding and wine not said here				by feast's friends	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Hot buttered toast and cocoa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toast	amod
2	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 toast	amod
3	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cocoa	cc
5	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 toast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bubble-and-squeak, then hot buttered toast and tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 squeak	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 squeak	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bubble	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 toast	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 toast	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 toast	amod
9	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 toast	amod
10	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bubble	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tea	cc
12	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bubble	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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