Test 11 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…
Looking back: in chapter VI, Badger said that when Toad is quiet and submissive, «then he's at his artfullest». What does Badger now praise in Mole?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Badger, Toad · What happens: look back, say, be, praise · To what, where: Mole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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: Looking back: in chapter VI, Badger said that when Toad is quiet and submissive, «then he's at his artfullest».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapter | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chapter | case |
| 5 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 chapter | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 quiet | mark |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 quiet | advmod |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 quiet | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 quiet | cop |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 submissive | cc |
| 16 | submissive | submissive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 quiet | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 artfullest | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 artfullest | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 artfullest | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 artfullest | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 artfullest | cop |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 artfullest | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 artfullest | nmod:poss |
| 24 | artfullest | artfull | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 quiet | obl |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 artfullest | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Badger not said here | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Badger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Toad | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Toad not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Toad | then | artfull property | 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: What does Badger now praise in Mole?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Badger | aux |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 praise | advmod |
| 5 | praise | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Mole | case |
| 7 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 praise | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | present | Mole | now | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
His loud voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 voice | amod |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His cleverness, used against the Toads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cleverness | acl |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 Toads | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Toads | det |
| 7 | Toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | His cleverness not said here | against the Toads | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Real sense, used for his friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sense | amod |
| 2 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sense | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | Real sense not said here | for his friends | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
His sense, used for pride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sense | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sense | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 pride | case |
| 6 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | His sense not said here | for pride | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sense | His = he | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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