Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter XI, why did Badger want the attack during the banquet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: look back, want · To what, where: attack

This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 70 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	XI	XI	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chapter	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 want	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 attack	det
13	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 want	obj
14	during	during	ADP	_	16 banquet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 banquet	det
16	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 want	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	want	past · do-support	Badger	the attack			during the banquet		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot attack=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 · ✓ the right answer

The weasels would have no weapons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weasels	det
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 weapons	det
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the weasels	no weapons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient

Option 2

The weasels would be sleeping then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weasels	det
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleeping	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would · progressive	the weasels				then		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because the weasels had their weapons locked away and the attack would be quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weasels	det
3	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 weapons	nmod:poss
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 locked	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 quicker	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 attack	det
11	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quicker	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 quicker	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 quicker	cop
14	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the weasels	weasels's weapons		tree rules
2	lock away	participle	weasels's weapons not said here		away property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	would	the attack		quick property	tree rules

Option 4

So that the weasels would be drunk and unable to fight back at all during the feast

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 drunk	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 drunk	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weasels	det
4	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drunk	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 drunk	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 drunk	cop
7	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 unable	cc
9	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drunk	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fight	mark
11	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unable	xcomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 fight	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fight	obl
15	during	during	ADP	_	17 feast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feast	det
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drunk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the weasels		during the feast	drunk property	tree rules
2	be		the weasels not said here				tree rules
3	fight back	to-infinitive	the weasels not said here	all			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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