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Test 10 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer…

Looking back: in chapter VI, Badger told Toad he was «squandering the money your father left you». What does «squandering» mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger, father · What happens: look back, tell, squander, leave, mean · To what, where: Toad, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 65 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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, Badger told Toad he was «squandering the money your father left you».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	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	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 squandering	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 squandering	aux
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 squandering	punct
14	squandering	squander	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 money	det
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 squandering	obj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	nsubj
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 money	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 left	iobj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 squandering	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Badger not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Badger		Toad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient clause=Topic
3	squander in a quote	past · progressive	Badger	the money					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
4	leave in a quote	past	your father	the money not said here	Toad				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: What does «squandering» mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 squandering	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squandering	aux
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 squandering	punct
4	squandering	squander	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 mean	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 squandering	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squander in a quote	present · do-support							vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset
2	mean	infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Lending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lending	lending	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hiding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wasting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasting	wasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Saving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	gerund							vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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