Test 11 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

Looking back: in chapter IV, how did Badger send Rat and Mole home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: look back, send · To what, where: Rat

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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	11 send	advcl
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	IV	IV	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 send	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 send	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 send	aux
10	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 send	nsubj
11	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 send	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Mole	cc
14	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rat	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	11 send	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Badger not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	send	past · do-support	Badger	Rat and Mole				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=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 · ✓ the right answer

Through a long tunnel to the edge of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 tunnel	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tunnel	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tunnel	amod
4	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tunnel	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

By the old road across the open fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 road	amod
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	8 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fields	amod
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 road	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Through the front gate and down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
3	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gate	amod
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hill	cc
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gate	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Through a long tunnel to the edge of the wood, where they were met by a sleepy otter

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 tunnel	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tunnel	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tunnel	amod
4	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tunnel	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 met	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	aux:pass
15	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wood	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 otter	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 otter	det
18	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 otter	amod
19	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · passive	a sleepy otter	they					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent

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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