Test 9 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer…
Looking back: in chapter I, what other «fads» had Toad taken up before?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: look back, take up · To what, where: chapter
This is test 9 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 taken | 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 | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 chapter | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 had | obj |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fads | amod |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 fads | punct |
| 11 | fads | fad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 fads | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux |
| 14 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 taken | compound:prt |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | take up | past · perfect · passive | chapter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Fishing and hunting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hunting | cc |
| 3 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fishing | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sailing, punting and house-boating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 punting | punct |
| 3 | punting | punt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Sailing | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 boating | cc |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boating | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 7 | boating | boating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sailing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | gerund | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | punt | gerund | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Chess, cards and singing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cards | punct |
| 3 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chess | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 singing | cc |
| 5 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cycling, golf and horse-riding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cycling | cycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 golf | punct |
| 3 | golf | golf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cycling | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 riding | cc |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 7 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cycling | conj |
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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