Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…
★★★ If each of the «six boatloads» held 8 Rats, how many imaginary Rats were coming?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, many imaginary Rats · What happens: hold, come · To what, where: 8 Rats
This is test 18 · ★★★ 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 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | nsubj |
| 4 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 each | mark |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boatloads | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boatloads | det |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 boatloads | punct |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 boatloads | nummod |
| 10 | boatloads | boatload | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 each | nmod |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Rats | nummod |
| 14 | Rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 held | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coming | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 coming | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Rats | amod |
| 18 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Rats | amod |
| 19 | Rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Rats | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | ★ ★ ★ each | 8 Rats | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | many imaginary Rats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
42
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
48
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/t18/