Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

Why is it funny that Toad «knows every inch» of Toad Hall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Toad · What happens: be, know · To what, where: inch

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 knows	mark
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 knows	nsubj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 inch	det
10	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knows	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 inch	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Hall	case
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hall	compound
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 inch	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					funny property	tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	Toad	every inch of Toad Hall					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer inch=Stimulus

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 passage was hidden from him all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 passage	det
2	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux:pass
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hidden	obl
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	4 hidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		the passage				from him = he; along property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from he=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A whole tunnel under it was hidden from him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tunnel	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tunnel	amod
3	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tunnel	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hidden	aux:pass
7	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		a whole tunnel under it				from him = he	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from he=Beneficiary

Option 3

He never looked in the cellars at all

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 looked	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cellars	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cellars	det
6	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	past	He					at all; in the cellars	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cellar=Theme

Option 4

He never went down there

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 went	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go down	past	He			there		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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