Test 16 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer…
★★★ The Rat lists what has happened to Toad: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ... flung into the water». How many things is that?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: list, happen, handcuff, imprison, starve, chase · To what, where: Toad, water, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★★ 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: ★★★ The Rat lists what has happened to Toad: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ... flung into the water».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lists | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 Rat | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rat | det |
| 5 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | lists | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 lists | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Toad | case |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 handcuffed | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 handcuffed | punct |
| 14 | handcuffed | handcuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lists | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 imprisoned | punct |
| 16 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handcuffed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 starved | punct |
| 18 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handcuffed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chased | punct |
| 20 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handcuffed | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 terrified | punct |
| 22 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 handcuffed | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 terrified | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 insulted | punct |
| 28 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handcuffed | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 jeered | punct |
| 30 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 insulted | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 jeered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 flung | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flung | cc |
| 34 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 35 flung | punct |
| 35 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handcuffed | conj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 water | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 water | det |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flung | obl |
| 39 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 35 flung | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lists | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | list | present | ★ ★ the Rat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | present · perfect | Toad | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | handcuff in a quote | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | imprison in a quote | participle | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | starve in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | chase in a quote | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | insult in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | jeer in a quote | participle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | fling in a quote | participle | the water | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into water=Destination |
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: How many things is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 things | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 things | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
0
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Twelve things, counting the water as well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 things | nummod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 counting | punct |
| 4 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 things | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counting | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 counting | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | Twelve things not said here | the water | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
Option 4
Eleven things in all, counting each separately
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 things | nummod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 things | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 counting | punct |
| 6 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 things | acl |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 counting | obj |
| 8 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 6 counting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | Eleven things in all not said here | each | separately property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
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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