Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Why could the friends climb into the pantry without being heard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: climb, hear · To what, where: pantry

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	5 climb	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 climb	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friends	det
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climb	nsubj
5	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pantry	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pantry	det
8	pantry	pantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 heard	mark
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heard	aux:pass
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	could	the friends			the pantry			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pantry=Destination
2	hear	gerund · passive							vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»

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 weasels had sent all their servants out of the house for the night

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 sent	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 servants	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servants	nmod:poss
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		the weasels		the house	night		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination servant=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The party was deafening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deafening	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deafening	aux
4	deafening	deafen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deafen	past · progressive	the party						vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The lights were out inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lights	det
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 out	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 out	cop
4	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 out	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lights					inside, out property	tree rules

Option 4

The weasels were all asleep

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 asleep	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the weasels					all, asleep property	tree rules

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