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Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…

Ella, «it's dreich (gloomy) out»: «why attack on a wet stormy night?» What does the story suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, story · What happens: be, suggest · To what, where: dreich

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Ella, «it's dreich (gloomy) out»: «why attack on a wet stormy night?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dreich	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 dreich	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dreich	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dreich	cop
6	dreich	dreich	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ella	appos
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 gloomy	punct
8	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dreich	amod
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 gloomy	punct
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 gloomy	compound:prt
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 gloomy	punct
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
15	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 why	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 night	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 night	det
18	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 night	amod
19	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 night	amod
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attack	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	dreich					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: What does the story suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 suggest	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suggest	nsubj
5	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone was asleep in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 asleep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everyone			bed		asleep property	tree rules

Option 2

The weasels hated wet weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weasels	det
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hated	nsubj
3	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weather	amod
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	the weasels	wet weather					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weather=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody expected an attack on such a night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 expected	nsubj
2	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 attack	det
4	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expected	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 night	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 night	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past	Nobody	a attack			night		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Theme

Option 4

Nobody expected an attack on such a night, so the animals were caught unprepared and unguarded

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 expected	nsubj
2	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 attack	det
4	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expected	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 night	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 night	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expected	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caught	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 caught	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animals	det
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 caught	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 caught	aux:pass
14	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 expected	parataxis
15	unprepared	unprepar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 caught	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 unguarded	cc
17	unguarded	unguard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 caught	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past	Nobody	a attack			night		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Theme
2	catch	past · passive		the animals					tree rules
3	unprepar	participle							tree rules
4	unguard	participle							tree rules

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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