Test 3 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…
What is the sentries' plan meant to do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plan, sentries · What happens: be, mean, do, plan
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 meant | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sentries | det |
| 4 | sentries | sentry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plan | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 sentries | case |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 meant | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 meant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | past | the sentries's plan | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sentries's plan not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | plan | the sentries | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Keep anyone from getting back into Toad Hall while the Wild Wooders are there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 4 getting | mark |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 getting | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 Hall | case |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hall | compound |
| 8 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 Wooders | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wooders | det |
| 11 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wooders | compound |
| 12 | Wooders | Wooder | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | anyone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get back | gerund | you not said here | Toad Hall | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | present | anyone not said here | there property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Keep Toad from leaving the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 4 leaving | mark |
| 4 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | Toad | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | you not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Keep anyone from getting back into Toad Hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 4 getting | mark |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 getting | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 Hall | case |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hall | compound |
| 8 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | anyone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get back | gerund | you not said here | Toad Hall | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hall=Destination |
Option 4
Keep the Wild Wooders out of the river and bring back Toad safely by boat
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wooders | det |
| 3 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wooders | compound |
| 4 | Wooders | Wooder | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bring | cc |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 13 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 boat | case |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | the Wild Wooders | the river | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wooder=Theme out river=Location | |||
| 2 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | Toad | by boat; safely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument toad=Destination |
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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