Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

What does Toad's dream about the passage that «twisted and turned round and shook itself» show?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dream, Toad · What happens: twist, turn round, shake, show, dream · To what, where: passage, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 show	aux
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dream	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Toad	case
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 passage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passage	det
8	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 twisted	obj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 twisted	punct
11	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 passage	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 twisted	conj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 turned	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shook	cc
16	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 twisted	conj
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 shook	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 passage	punct
19	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	twist in a quote	past		the passage		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	turn round in a quote	past			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	shake in a quote	past		dream		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
4	show	present · do-support	Toad's dream		about the passage	tree rules
5	dream		Toad			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

He is angry with the weasels

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	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 weasels	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weasels	det
6	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					with the weasels; angry property	tree rules

Option 2

He is hungry

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He is excited and nervous about tonight

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	3 excited	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 excited	cop
3	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nervous	cc
5	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 excited	conj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 tonight	case
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nervous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					excited property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here				tonight		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He is afraid of the dark and the water

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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					of the dark and the water; afraid property	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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