Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Why did Badger put Toad last in the line?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: put · To what, where: Toad, line

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
6	last	last	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 line	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 line	det
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	Badger	Toad		the line		last property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toad=Theme in line=Destination

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

So he could watch Toad closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 watch	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watch	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 watch	aux
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obj
6	closely	closely	ADV	_	4 watch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	could	he	Toad				closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme

Option 2

Because Toad was the youngest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 youngest	mark
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 youngest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 youngest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Toad					young property	tree rules

Option 3

To punish him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		him = he					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To keep him out of trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 trouble	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 trouble	case
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		him = he		trouble			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out trouble=Location

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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