Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…
★★★ Toad promised: «I will be humble and submissive». Which word in his promise means «obedient»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, word · What happens: promise, be, mean · To what, where: obedient · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 18 · ★★★ of lesson 66 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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: ★★★ Toad promised: «I will be humble and submissive».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Toad | case |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 humble | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 humble | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 humble | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 humble | cop |
| 11 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 promised | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 submissive | cc |
| 13 | submissive | submissive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 humble | conj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 humble | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | ★ ★ ★ Toad | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | ★ ★ ★ Toad = ★ | humble property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | ★ ★ ★ Toad = ★ not said here | 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: Which word in his promise means «obedient»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 promise | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 promise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 obedient | punct |
| 8 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 obedient | punct |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | which word in word's promise | obedient | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obedient=Topic | ||||
| 2 | promise | word | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Submissive, humble and obedient to the Rat's advice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Submissive | Submissive | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 humble | punct |
| 3 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Submissive | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 obedient | cc |
| 5 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 humble | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 advice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rat | det |
| 8 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 advice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Rat | case |
| 10 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obedient | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Submissive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Submissive | Submissive | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Dutiful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutiful | dutiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Promise, submission and meekness in the Rat's presence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 submission | punct |
| 3 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Promise | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 meekness | cc |
| 5 | meekness | meekness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Promise | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 presence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rat | det |
| 8 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 presence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Rat | case |
| 10 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Promise | nmod |
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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