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

Why does Toad think Mole «spoilt everything»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: think · To what, where: Mole

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	4 think	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 everything	punct
7	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 everything	amod
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 Mole	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 everything	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	Toad	Mole					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mole=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

He thinks Mole's warning alerted the stoats and wrecked the whole careful plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 warning	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Mole	case
5	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alerted	nsubj
6	alerted	alert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stoats	det
8	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 alerted	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wrecked	cc
10	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alerted	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plan	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plan	amod
13	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plan	amod
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrecked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	alert speech: other	past	Mole's warning	the stoats	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stoat=Recipient
3	wreck	past	Mole's warning not said here	the whole careful plan	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
4	warn		Mole		nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He told all the stoats the plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stoats	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stoats	det
5	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He	all stoats					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent stoat=Recipient plan=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He thinks it warned the stoats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warned	nsubj
4	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stoats	det
6	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	warn speech: warn	past	it	the stoats					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stoat=Recipient

Option 4

It alerted the stoats, he thinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 alerted	nsubj
2	alerted	alert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stoats	det
4	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 alerted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 alerted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alert speech: other	past	It	the stoats					vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stoat=Recipient
2	think speech: other	present	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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