Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Ad…
★★★ The policemen were «about two fields off». If each field were 200 steps across, about how many steps behind Toad were they?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: policemen, field, fields · What happens: be · To what, where: 200 steps
This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 64 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» 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: ★★★ The policemen were «about two fields off».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 policemen | det |
| 5 | policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fields | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fields | cop |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 fields | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 two | advmod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 fields | nummod |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 ★ | compound:prt |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the policemen | ★ two fields | 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.
Sentence 2: If each field were 200 steps across, about how many steps behind Toad were they?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 steps | mark |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 field | det |
| 3 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steps | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 steps | cop |
| 5 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 steps | nummod |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | across | across | ADV | _ | 6 steps | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 steps | punct |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 steps | case |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steps | amod |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 steps | conj |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 Toad | case |
| 14 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 steps | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 steps | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 were | nsubj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 steps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | each field | 200 steps and many steps behind Toad | across property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | fields = field | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
600
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
400
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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