Test 5 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

Why are the weasels «suspecting nothing» a big help?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: weasels · What happens: suspect · To what, where: nothing

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	6 suspecting	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 suspecting	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weasels	det
4	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 suspecting	nsubj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 suspecting	punct
6	suspecting	suspect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 suspecting	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 suspecting	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 help	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 help	amod
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suspecting	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 suspecting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suspect in a quote	present · progressive	the weasels	nothing					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme help=Attribute

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

Because they think the friends are at home asleep and will not come to the banquet at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 think	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friends	det
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	obj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 home	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friends	conj
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 banquet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 banquet	det
16	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	they	the friends and home			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme
2	is	present	they not said here		home		tree rules
3	not come	future	they not said here		all	to the banquet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to banquet=Initial_Location

Option 2

They will be eating without any guards

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	4 eating	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 guards	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 guards	det
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	future · progressive	They					without any guards	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They will be feasting with no weapons

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	4 feasting	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feasting	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 feasting	aux
4	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 weapons	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 weapons	det
7	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	future · progressive	They					with no weapons	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They will sing and dance all night

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 sing	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dance	cc
5	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	conj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	future	They						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	infinitive	They not said here				night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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