Test 9 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter VI, at the Rat's house, what did Badger say about «the hour»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: look back, say · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 house	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 house	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rat	det
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Rat	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 say	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 house	parataxis
18	about	about	ADP	_	21 hour	case
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 hour	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obl
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 house	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Badger	the Rat's house			hour		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 right answer

«The hour has come!... Toad's hour!»

Sentence 1: «The hour has come!...

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	...	...	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect	the hour						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 2: Toad's hour!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Toad	case
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 hour	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 hour	punct

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

Option 2

«Toad's hour»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 hour	punct
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hour	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Toad	case
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 hour	punct

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

Option 3

«The hour is near, Toad's turn»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 near	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 near	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 near	cop
5	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turn	punct
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Toad	case
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 near	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the hour					near property	tree rules

Option 4

«The hour is come, my friends!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux:pass
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 friends	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	vocative
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · passive		the hour				my friends vocative	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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