Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Ad…
Looking back: in chapter II, what did Toad keep murmuring in the road after the first motor-car passed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad, chapter · What happens: look back, keep, murmur, pass · To what, where: chapter, road, first motor car
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 63 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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 | root | root |
| 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 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 chapter | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 keep | obj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 10 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chapter | conj |
| 12 | murmuring | murmur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 murmuring | obl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 car | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 car | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 car | amod |
| 19 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 car | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 motor | punct |
| 21 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 murmuring | obl |
| 22 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 car | acl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | past · do-support | Toad | chapter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | gerund | chapter not said here | the road | after the first motor car | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in road=Location | |||
| 4 | pass | participle | the first motor car not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«Poop-poop, poop-poop, what a fine motor-car!»
The tree, 9 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 poop | punct |
| 2 | Poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poop | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Poop | punct |
| 4 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 poop | punct |
| 6 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poop | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 poop | punct |
| 8 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poop | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 car | punct |
| 10 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 15 car | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 car | amod |
| 13 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 car | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 motor | punct |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poop | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 poop | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 poop | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
«Beep»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beep | punct |
| 2 | Beep | beep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beep | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«Poop-poop!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 poop | punct |
| 2 | Poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poop | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Poop | punct |
| 4 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 poop | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 poop | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
«Oh, poop-poop, what a beautiful car it was!»
The tree, 9 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 poop | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 poop | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poop | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 poop | punct |
| 6 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 car | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 car | nsubj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 car | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 car | amod |
| 11 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poop | appos |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 was | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 car | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 poop | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 poop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | car in a quote | poop poop | 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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