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Test 12 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…

Looking back: in chapter VI, the magistrates gave Toad twenty years. Which of his offences did the Clerk say deserved the most years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magistrates, offences, Clerk say, Toad · What happens: look back, give, do, deserve, offend · To what, where: Toad

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: in chapter VI, the magistrates gave Toad twenty years.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gave	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	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 magistrates	det
9	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	iobj
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the magistrates not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	give	past	the magistrates		Toad		year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Which of his offences did the Clerk say deserved the most years?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 did	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 offences	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 offences	nmod:poss
4	offences	offence	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deserved	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 say	det
7	Clerk	Clerk	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	compound
8	say	say	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deserved	nsubj
9	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 years	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 years	advmod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 deserved	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 deserved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Toad's offences						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
2	deserve	past	the Clerk say				year		tree rules
3	offend		Toad						nom offence «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Stealing the motor-car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
3	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 car	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 motor	punct
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		the motor car					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme

Option 2

Stealing cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		cars					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cheeking the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheeking	cheek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 police	det
3	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cheeking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheek	gerund		the police					tree rules

Option 4

Joyriding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joyriding	joyride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joyride	gerund							tree rules

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