Test 9 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…

Looking back: in chapter I, what did the Rat say about weasels and stoats?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, say · To what, where: chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rat	det
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chapter	acl:relcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 weasels	case
14	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stoats	cc
16	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 weasels	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Rat	chapter				about weasels and stoats	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

They are harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 harmless	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmless	cop
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					harmless property	tree rules

Option 2

They never bother anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bother	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bother	advmod
3	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 bother	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bother	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	present	They	anyone		all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«They break out sometimes... you can't really trust them»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 break	nsubj
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trust	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 break	compound:prt
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 break	advmod
6	...	...	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 trust	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 trust	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 trust	advmod
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 trust	advmod
11	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trust	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 trust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break out in a quote	present	They					sometimes property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	not trust in a quote	can	you	them = they					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

They are kind to everybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 everybody	case
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					to everybody; kind property	tree rules

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