Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…
Is it TRUE or FALSE? «Badger thinks they need every sword and pistol the Rat has.»
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Badger, they, Rat · What happens: be, think, need, pistol, have · To what, where: sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: Is it TRUE or FALSE?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 TRUE | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 TRUE | nsubj |
| 3 | TRUE | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 FALSE | cc |
| 5 | FALSE | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 TRUE | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 TRUE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
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: «Badger thinks they need every sword and pistol the Rat has.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pistol | cc |
| 9 | pistol | pistol | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rat | det |
| 11 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pistol | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Badger | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | they | every sword | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pistol in a quote | infinitive | they not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the Rat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
False: four sticks will do, he says
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | advcl |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sticks | nummod |
| 4 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 False | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 False | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | four sticks | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
True: he says every pistol is needed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pistol | det |
| 6 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 needed | aux:pass |
| 8 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 says | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | need | present · passive | every pistol | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
True: the pistols are needed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pistols | amod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 True | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pistols | det |
| 4 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 needed | aux:pass |
| 6 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · passive | the True pistols | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
True: Badger says they need every sword, pistol, and gun the Rat can make
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 True | parataxis |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pistol | punct |
| 10 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sword | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 13 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rat | det |
| 15 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 True | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Badger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | need | present | they | every sword and pistol | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | can | gun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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