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

Ava, chuffed (pleased): «the weasels put up a massive long fight, hours and hours.» Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weasels, you · What happens: chuff, put up, put · To what, where: massive long fight, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 71 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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: Ava, chuffed (pleased): «the weasels put up a massive long fight, hours and hours.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chuffed	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ava	punct
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chuffed	conj
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weasels	det
10	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fight	det
14	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fight	amod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fight	amod
16	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hours	punct
18	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fight	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hours	cc
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fight	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chuffed	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle							tree rules
2	put up in a quote	past	the weasels	a massive long fight and hours and hours					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fight=Goal

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: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It lasted about five minutes, with the four friends easily beating the whole weasel army at once

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 five	advmod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasted	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 friends	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 friends	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 friends	det
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 friends	nummod
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasted	conj
11	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 beating	advmod
12	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 friends	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 army	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 army	amod
15	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 army	compound
16	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beating	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 lasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				minute		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	beat	gerund	the four friends not said here	the whole weasel army				easily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location army=Theme

Option 2

It was over in about five minutes, and no one was hurt badly enough to stop the feast

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 over	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 over	cop
3	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 minutes	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 over	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hurt	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hurt	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hurt	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hurt	aux:pass
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 over	conj
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 enough	advmod
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 hurt	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stop	mark
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hurt	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 feast	det
19	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		minute	over property	tree rules
2	hurt	past · passive		no one		enough property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	stop	to-infinitive		the feast			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality feast=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was over in about five minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 over	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 over	cop
3	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 minutes	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 over	obl

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

Option 4

It lasted several hours of fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hours	amod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasted	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fighting	case
6	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				hour		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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