Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter III, how did Mole feel alone in the Wild Wood among the faces and the whistling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mole · What happens: look back, feel

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 feel	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	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feel	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 feel	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feel	aux
10	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 feel	nsubj
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 Wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wood	det
15	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	16 Wood	flat
16	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 feel	obl
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 faces	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 faces	det
19	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feel	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 whistling	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 whistling	det
22	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 faces	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 feel	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	feel	past · do-support	Mole					among the faces and the whistling; in the Wild Wood; alone property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in wood=Attribute

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

Terrified — «the Terror of the Wild Wood»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Terror	amod
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 Terrified	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Terror	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Terror	det
5	Terror	Terror	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wood	det
8	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	9 Wood	flat
9	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Terror	nmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 Terror	punct

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

Option 2

Frightened to death, like a child lost among strangers in the endless dark wood

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 death	case
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Frightened	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Frightened	obl
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 child	acl
9	among	among	ADP	_	10 strangers	case
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
13	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle						to death; like a child	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	lose	participle		a child not said here		the endless dark wood		among strangers	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in wood=Eventuality

Option 3

Cheerful, since he liked the whistling sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 liked	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	5 liked	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
7	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	compound
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	the whistling sound					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sound=Theme

Option 4

Happy to be out at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	6 last	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 last	cop
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 be	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Happy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						last property	tree rules

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