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Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

Looking back: in chapter VI, Rat was tricked by Toad «playing at being» ill. How does Badger now handle Toad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad, Badger · What happens: look back, trick, play, handle · To what, where: Rat, Toad

This is test 13 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: in chapter VI, Rat was tricked by Toad «playing at being» ill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tricked	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	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tricked	aux:pass
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 Toad	case
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	obl:agent
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 playing	punct
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tricked	advcl
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 being	mark
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 playing	advcl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 playing	punct
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 playing	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tricked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Toad not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	trick	past · passive	Toad	Rat					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	play in a quote	gerund	Toad not said here					ill property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: How does Badger now handle Toad?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 handle	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 handle	aux
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 handle	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 handle	advmod
5	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 handle	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 handle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	handle	present · do-support	Badger	Toad			now		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme

The options

Option 1

He lets Toad roam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 roam	compound
4	roam	roam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	He	Toad roam					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roam=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He treats Toad as a child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 treats	nsubj
2	treats	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 treats	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 child	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present	He	Toad				as a child	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent toad=Theme as child=Attribute

Option 3

He ignores Toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignores	nsubj
2	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ignores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	He	Toad					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He keeps Toad firmly in order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 keeps	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He	Toad		order		firmly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toad=Theme in order=Location

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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