Test 8 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer…

«Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears.» Why is this a good title for this chapter?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Summer Tempests, this · What happens: come, be · To what, where: Tears, good title

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Came	punct
2	Like	like	ADP	_	4 Tempests	case
3	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tempests	compound
4	Tempests	Tempest	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Came	nsubj
5	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Tears	nmod:poss
7	Tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Came	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Came	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 Came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Summer Tempests	His Tears					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=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: Why is this a good title for this chapter?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 title	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 title	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 title	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 title	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 title	amod
6	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 chapter	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 chapter	det
9	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 title	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 title	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	a good title				for this chapter	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Toad's tears burst out suddenly and are over just as fast, like a summer storm

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Toad	case
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burst	nsubj
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 burst	compound:prt
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 burst	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fast	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fast	cop
9	over	over	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 suddenly	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 storm	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 storm	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 storm	det
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 storm	compound
17	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst out	past	Toad's tears					suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Toad's tears not said here					fast, over property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Toad's tears come suddenly and stop quickly, just like a summer storm that passes over the wood in the afternoon

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Toad	case
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 stop	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 storm	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 storm	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 storm	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 storm	det
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 storm	compound
14	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	parataxis
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 passes	nsubj
16	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 storm	acl:relcl
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passes	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 afternoon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 afternoon	det
22	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Toad's tears			suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	infinitive	Toad's tears not said here			quickly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	pass	present	a summer storm	the wood	afternoon		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over wood=Location

Option 3

It is about rain falling and the river flooding the road to the Hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 falling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 falling	cop
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 falling	mark
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falling	nsubj
5	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 river	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falling	conj
9	flooding	flood	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 falling	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flooding	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hall	det
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flooding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					fall property	tree rules
2	flood	gerund		the road				to the Hall	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient

Option 4

Toad's tears are heavy like the rain that falls in winter every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Toad	case
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 rain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rain	det
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 falls	nsubj
10	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rain	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 falls	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 falls	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad's tears					like the rain; heavy property	tree rules
2	fall	present	the rain				winter; year		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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