Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…
Why does the Rat call Toad «of all the trying animals»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: call, try · To what, where: Toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 | 5 call | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rat | det |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 animals | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 animals | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 animals | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 animals | det |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 animals | amod |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | advcl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 animals | punct |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · do-support | the Rat | Toad | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Toad is a silly and greedy animal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 animal | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 animal | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 greedy | cc |
| 6 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 silly | conj |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Toad | a silly animal | tree rules |
Option 2
Toad never listens to anyone's advice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 listens | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 listens | advmod |
| 3 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 advice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 anyone | case |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | present | Toad | to anyone's advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Toad keeps rushing off, ignoring advice, and wrecking things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 rushing | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignoring | punct |
| 6 | ignoring | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rushing | conj |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ignoring | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrecking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrecking | cc |
| 10 | wrecking | wreck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 keeps | advcl |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wrecking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rush off | gerund | Toad not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ignore | gerund | Toad not said here | advice | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wreck | gerund | Toad not said here | things | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
Option 4
Toad always cooks dinner badly and makes the house dirty for his friends to clean
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cooks | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 cooks | advmod |
| 3 | cooks | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cooks | obj |
| 5 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 cooks | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 makes | cc |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cooks | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makes | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 clean | mark |
| 15 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present | Toad | dinner | always, badly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | present | Toad not said here | the house | for Toad's friends; dirty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Product for friend=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | clean | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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