Test 3 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…

Why did the stoats believe the «washerwoman»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: stoats · What happens: believe · To what, where: washerwoman

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	5 believe	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stoats	det
4	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believe	nsubj
5	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 washerwoman	det
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 washerwoman	punct
8	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believe	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 washerwoman	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past · do-support	the stoats	the washerwoman					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washerwoman=Stimulus

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

She brought them a cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cake	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	She	them = they					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination cake=Theme

Option 2

She had a basket full of clean laundry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 basket	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 basket	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 laundry	case
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 laundry	amod
8	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	a basket					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She said she washed for Mr. Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 washed	nsubj
4	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Badger	case
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Badger	nmod:desc
7	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 washed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wash	past	she					for Badger Mr.	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She brought a basket of clean laundry and offered to wash the stoats' uniforms for free

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 basket	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 laundry	case
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 laundry	amod
7	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 basket	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 offered	cc
9	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 brought	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wash	mark
11	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 offered	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stoats	det
13	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 uniforms	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 stoats	case
15	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wash	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 free	case
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	She	a basket of clean laundry		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
2	offer	participle	She not said here			tree rules
3	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the stoats's uniforms	for free	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent uniform=Patient for free=Beneficiary

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