Test 11 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…

Looking back: in chapter I, who fell into the river when a boat tipped over, and who pulled him out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapter, boat · What happens: look back, fall, tip over, pull out · To what, where: river, him

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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	21 pulled	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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chapter	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 tipped	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boat	det
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tipped	nsubj
16	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fell	advcl
17	over	over	ADV	_	16 tipped	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pulled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pulled	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 pulled	nsubj
21	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pulled	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	21 pulled	compound:prt
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 pulled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	fall	past	chapter		into the river result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
3	tip over	participle	a boat		over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pull out	past		him = he		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.

The options

Option 1

Toad fell in.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	Toad						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mole fell; Rat saved him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 saved	punct
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saved	nsubj
5	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saved	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Mole						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	past	Rat	Mole					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Toad fell in; the Badger pulled him out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Badger	det
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pulled	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 pulled	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	Toad						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull out	past	the Badger	Toad					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mole fell in; the Rat pulled him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pulled	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	Mole						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull out	past	the Rat	Mole					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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