Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…
Why did Toad snigger at the story of his friends being beaten and turned out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: snigger, beat, turn out · To what, where: story, friends
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 snigger | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 snigger | aux |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 snigger | nsubj |
| 4 | snigger | snigger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snigger | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 friends | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 story | nmod |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 beaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 friends | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 beaten | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 turned | compound:prt |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 snigger | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snigger | past · do-support | Toad | the story of Toad's friends | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beat | gerund · passive | Toad's friends not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | turn out | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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
He was simply too tired to care about what had happened to his friends that night
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 3 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 care | mark |
| 7 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tired | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 happened | mark |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | aux |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 care | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 happened | obl |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 friends | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | simply, tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | care | to-infinitive | He not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | to his friends that night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
He was happy at their trouble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happy | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | their trouble | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trouble | their = they | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was thoughtless and unfeeling — not a kind reaction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thoughtless | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thoughtless | cop |
| 3 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 unfeeling | cc |
| 5 | unfeeling | unfeeling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thoughtless | conj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 reaction | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 reaction | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reaction | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 reaction | amod |
| 10 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thoughtless | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | thoughtless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | He not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
He was thoughtless and unfeeling, showing no kindness towards friends who had been beaten
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thoughtless | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thoughtless | cop |
| 3 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 unfeeling | cc |
| 5 | unfeeling | unfeeling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thoughtless | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 showing | punct |
| 7 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thoughtless | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 kindness | det |
| 9 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showing | obj |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 showing | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 beaten | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 beaten | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 beaten | aux:pass |
| 15 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 friends | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | thoughtless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | He not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | show | gerund | He not said here | no kindness | towards friends | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Patient towards friend=Recipient | |||
| 4 | beat | past · perfect · passive | friends | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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