Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

Why does the Rat get «rather muddled» about learn and teach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: get, muddle, learn, teach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	5 get	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 muddled	punct
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 muddled	advmod
8	muddled	muddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 get	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 muddled	punct
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 learn	advmod
11	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 muddled	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 teach	cc
13	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 learn	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	the Rat		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	muddle in a quote	participle	the Rat not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	learn	infinitive	the Rat not said here	about property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	teach speech: other	infinitive	the Rat not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

He had never learned to read properly

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	4 learned	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learned	advmod
4	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learned	xcomp
7	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	past · perfect	He						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	to-infinitive	He not said here					properly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Badger insists so firmly that Rat starts to doubt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 insists	nsubj
2	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 firmly	advmod
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 insists	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 starts	mark
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 starts	nsubj
7	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 insists	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 doubt	mark
9	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 starts	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	present	Badger	firmly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	start	present	Rat		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	doubt	to-infinitive	Rat not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Rat was thinking about the banquet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 banquet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 banquet	det
7	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	the Rat					about the banquet	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about banquet=Topic

Option 4

Badger insists so firmly that Rat starts to doubt, and then Toad joins in to tease him about it

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 insists	nsubj
2	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 firmly	advmod
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 insists	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 starts	mark
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 starts	nsubj
7	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 insists	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 doubt	mark
9	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 starts	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joins	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 joins	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 joins	advmod
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 joins	nsubj
14	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 insists	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	14 joins	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tease	mark
17	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 joins	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tease	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tease	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	present	Badger			firmly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	start	present	Rat				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	doubt	to-infinitive	Rat not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	join in	present	Toad		then		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	tease	to-infinitive	Toad not said here	Toad		about it	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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