Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…
Leo: «Toad's stories to Mole were all true facts, he's a legit (honest) bloke now.» Put it right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stories, Mole, you · What happens: be, put · To what, where: true facts, legit
This is test 13 · ★★★ 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: Leo: «Toad's stories to Mole were all true facts, he's a legit (honest) bloke now.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 facts | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 stories | punct |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Toad | case |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 facts | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Mole | case |
| 8 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 facts | cop |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 facts | advmod |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 facts | amod |
| 12 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Leo | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 legit | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 legit | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 legit | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 legit | det |
| 17 | legit | legit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 facts | conj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 honest | punct |
| 19 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bloke | amod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 honest | punct |
| 21 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 legit | appos |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 bloke | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leo | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leo | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Toad's stories to Mole | true facts and a legit | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Mole | a legit | 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: Put it right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | legit | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only some were true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 true | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | some | true property | tree rules |
Option 2
Most were invented tales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 tales | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tales | cop |
| 3 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tales | amod |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | participle | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Most invented tales | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Many were «what-might-have-happened»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux:pass |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happened | aux |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | past · perfect · passive | Many | tree rules |
Option 4
Some were just made up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · passive | Some | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
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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