Test 4 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…
Lexi, salty (jealous) like Toad: «Badger's got favourites now, Mole ate (did brilliantly) for nothing.» What does Badger value in Mole?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Badger, Mole · What happens: get, eat, do, value · To what, where: favourites, Mole
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: Lexi, salty (jealous) like Toad: «Badger's got favourites now, Mole ate (did brilliantly) for nothing.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lexi | Lexi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 salty | punct |
| 3 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lexi | appos |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 jealous | punct |
| 5 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 jealous | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 Toad | case |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 jealous | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 jealous | parataxis |
| 14 | favourites | favourite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | obj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 got | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ate | punct |
| 17 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ate | nsubj |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | parataxis |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ate | conj |
| 21 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 ate | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 nothing | case |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 ate | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jealous | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 jealous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · passive | Badger | favourites | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer favourite=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | past | Mole | for nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | Mole not said here | brilliantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What does Badger value in Mole?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 value | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 value | aux |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 value | nsubj |
| 4 | value | value | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Mole | case |
| 6 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 value | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 value | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | value | present · do-support | Badger | Mole | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Good sense
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sense | amod |
| 2 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sport
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Strong legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legs | amod |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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