Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Why do the weasels laugh at «honest Toad»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weasels · What happens: laugh

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 laugh	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weasels	det
4	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laugh	nsubj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 Toad	case
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Toad	punct
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Toad	amod
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Toad	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · do-support	the weasels					at honest Toad	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Because Toad had been caught cheating at cards and then boasting of it in public

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 caught	mark
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 caught	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 cards	case
8	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cheating	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 boasting	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 boasting	advmod
11	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cheating	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boasting	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 public	case
15	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive	Toad				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cheat	gerund		cards			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	boast speech: other	gerund		public	then	of it	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He had ruined the Hall's garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ruined	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ruined	aux
3	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hall	det
5	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 garden	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Hall	case
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ruined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	past · perfect	He	the Hall's garden					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient

Option 3

Because he was a noble lord and the weasels were jealous of his wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 lord	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lord	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lord	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lord	det
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lord	amod
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jealous	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weasels	det
9	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jealous	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jealous	cop
11	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lord	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wealth	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wealth	nmod:poss
14	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a noble lord					tree rules
2	is	past	the weasels					of his wealth; jealous property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Toad was jailed for stealing a car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 jailed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jailed	aux:pass
3	jailed	jail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 stealing	mark
5	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 jailed	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jail	past · passive		Toad					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	steal	gerund		a car					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme

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