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Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…

Is it TRUE or FALSE? «The hundred badgers were real.»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, hundred badgers · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Is it TRUE or FALSE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 TRUE	nsubj
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 FALSE	cc
5	FALSE	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 TRUE	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules
2	be								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: «The hundred badgers were real.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 badgers	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 badgers	nummod
4	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 real	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the hundred badgers					real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

False: Badger sent them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Badger	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	False Badger	them = they					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

True: the badgers really came from the paddock that night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 badgers	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 badgers	det
4	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 paddock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 paddock	det
9	paddock	paddock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the True badgers			the paddock	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from paddock=Initial_Location

Option 3

False: they were invented

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 invented	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 invented	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invented	aux:pass
5	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 False	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		they					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

False: Mole made them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Mole	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	False Mole	them = they					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=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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