Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…

Why did Mole let Toad tell his adventures in the garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole, Toad · What happens: let, tell, adventure · To what, where: Toad, adventures, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 adventures	nmod:poss
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	Mole	Toad		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Toad not said here	Mole's adventures	the garden	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient
3	adventure		Mole			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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

Mole was simply being kind, and so he let Toad enjoy telling his grand adventures in the garden

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
3	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 let	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	conj
11	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
12	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 enjoy	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 adventures	nmod:poss
15	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 adventures	amod
16	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 telling	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mole			kind, simply property	tree rules
2	let	past	Mole	Toad			tree rules
3	enjoy	infinitive	Toad not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	Toad not said here	Mole's grand adventures	the garden		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient
5	adventure		Mole				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He wanted Toad to talk more

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	Toad					tree rules
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	Toad not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Kindness: Mole was a good listener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listener	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kindness	punct
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kindness	vocative
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listener	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 listener	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 listener	amod
7	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Kindness	a good listener					tree rules

Option 4

Because Mole was kind-hearted and a good listener, he let Toad tell all of his adventures in the sunny garden

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 hearted	mark
2	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hearted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hearted	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hearted	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
6	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 let	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 listener	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 listener	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 listener	amod
10	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hearted	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hearted	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	nsubj
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 tell	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 adventures	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 adventures	nmod:poss
19	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 all	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 garden	det
22	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 garden	amod
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mole			hearted property	tree rules
2	let	past	Mole				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Toad	all	the sunny garden		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient
4	adventure		Toad				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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