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Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

Arlo, «I dinnae ken» (I don't know): «what's wrong with 'learn 'em' anyway?» Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, dinnae ken · What happens: not know, be, learn · To what, where: 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Arlo, «I dinnae ken» (I don't know): «what's wrong with 'learn 'em' anyway?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arlo	Arlo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ken	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Arlo	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 ken	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ken	nsubj
5	dinnae	dinnae	X	_	6 ken	compound
6	ken	ken	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 ken	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ken	parataxis
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 wrong	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 wrong	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 wrong	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wrong	cop
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ken	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 learn	case
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 learn	punct
21	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wrong	csubj
22	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 learn	obj
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 learn	punct
24	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	21 learn	advmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 wrong	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	dinnae ken					wrong property	tree rules
3	learn in a quote	infinitive		'em = they				anyway property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is correct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 correct	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 correct	cop
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Badger is always right about words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 words	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Badger					about words; always, right property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Standard English says «teach 'em»; «learn 'em» is dialect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Standard	flat
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dialect	parataxis
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 teach	punct
5	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
6	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 teach	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 teach	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
11	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learn	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dialect	cop
14	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Standard						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	teach speech: other in a quote	infinitive			'em = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	learn in a quote	infinitive		'em = they					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	is a	present		dialect					tree rules

Option 4

It is just a joke; nobody says it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 joke	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	nobody	joke					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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