Test 17 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…
★★★ «More sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.» Whom is Badger quietly teasing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: other animals, Badger · What happens: have, tease · To what, where: More sense
This is test 17 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «More sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sense | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 sense | punct |
| 5 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 sense | amod |
| 6 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 finger | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 finger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finger | amod |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sense | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 animals | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | amod |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sense | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 whole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 whole | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 have | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bodies | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bodies | amod |
| 22 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 whole | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sense | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 sense | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | some other animals | More sense in your little finger not said here | whole property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
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: Whom is Badger quietly teasing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 teasing | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 teasing | aux |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 teasing | nsubj |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 teasing | advmod |
| 5 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 teasing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | present · progressive | Badger | quietly property | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Stoat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stoat | stoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The gardener at Toad Hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Hall | case |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hall | compound |
| 5 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gardener | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Toad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Weasel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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