Test 11 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter XI, what did the grumbling stoats say about the weasels?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grumbling stoats · What happens: look back, say · To what, where: chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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	root	root
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	XI	XI	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chapter	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stoats	det
11	grumbling	grumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stoats	compound
12	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chapter	acl:relcl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 weasels	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 weasels	det
16	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	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	the grumbling stoats	chapter				about the weasels	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

The weasels would feast in their warm camp while the stoats froze on the frosty bank

The tree, 16 words

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 feast	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feast	aux
4	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 camp	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 camp	nmod:poss
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 camp	amod
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 froze	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stoats	det
11	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 froze	nsubj
12	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feast	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 bank	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bank	det
15	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bank	amod
16	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 froze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	would	the weasels			weasels's warm camp			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	freeze	past	the stoats			the frosty bank			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The weasels were fat and warm

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 fat	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	cop
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 warm	cc
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the weasels					fat property	tree rules
2	be		the weasels not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The weasels would feast while they froze

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 feast	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feast	aux
4	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 froze	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 froze	nsubj
7	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	would	the weasels						vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	freeze	past	weasels = weasel						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The weasels would feast in the warm hall while the stoats froze outside in the cold

The tree, 16 words

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 feast	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feast	aux
4	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 froze	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stoats	det
11	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 froze	nsubj
12	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feast	advcl
13	outside	outside	ADV	_	12 froze	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cold	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cold	det
16	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 froze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	would	the weasels			the warm hall			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	freeze	past	the stoats			the cold		outside property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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