Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…
★★★ «Good Toad, modest Toad, honest Toad!» Which word would the weasels say honestly about Toad, judging from the story so far?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word · What happens: say, judge · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 18 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ «Good Toad, modest Toad, honest Toad!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Toad | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Toad | punct |
| 5 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Toad | amod |
| 6 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Toad | punct |
| 8 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Toad | amod |
| 9 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Toad | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Toad | punct |
| 11 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Toad | amod |
| 12 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Toad | appos |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Toad | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 Toad | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Which word would the weasels say honestly about Toad, judging from the story so far?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weasels | det |
| 5 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 Toad | case |
| 9 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 judging | punct |
| 11 | judging | judge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 say | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 judging | obl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 judging | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | which word | about Toad; honestly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | judge | gerund | which word not said here | the story | far property | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Several
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
None of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 None | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Some
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Probably the honest ones among the weasels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 ones | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 weasels | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weasels | det |
| 7 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ones | nmod |
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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