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Test 4 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Nell, nesh (feels the cold): «why was Toad shivering, scared or cold?» What does the book say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nell nesh, book · What happens: feel, shiver, say · To what, where: cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: Nell, nesh (feels the cold): «why was Toad shivering, scared or cold?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nell	Nell	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nesh	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nell	punct
3	nesh	nesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shivering	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 feels	punct
5	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nesh	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feels	obj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 feels	punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 shivering	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 shivering	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 shivering	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shivering	aux
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 shivering	nsubj
14	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scared	punct
16	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shivering	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 cold	cc
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 scared	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 shivering	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 shivering	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Nell nesh not said here	the cold					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
2	shiver in a quote	past · progressive	Nell nesh						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 the book say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the book						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both: dread and wet clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dread	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clothes	cc
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clothes	amod
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 dread	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Only from fear and fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 fear	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 fear	case
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fright	cc
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Neither: he was just excited to be out at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 excited	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 excited	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 excited	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 excited	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 excited	advmod
6	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 out	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 out	cop
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 excited	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 excited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				night	excited, neither property	tree rules

Option 4

Only from the cold night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 night	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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