Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter VI, what did Rat and Mole do to Toad's motor-clothes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, do

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 chapter	conj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Rat	aux
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Mole	cc
12	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rat	conj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	19 clothes	case
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 clothes	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Toad	case
17	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clothes	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 motor	punct
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 do	obl
20	?	?	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	do	present	Rat and Mole					to Toad's motor clothes	vn act-114-1 «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

Burned them on the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burned	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		them = they		the fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Washed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Washed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past		them = they					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Tore them off in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tore	Tore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tore	nmod
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Tore	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tore	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Took them off him bit by bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Took	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Took	obl
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obl:unmarked
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 bit	case
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		them = they				off him = he; by bit; bit obl:unmarked	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme off he=Initial_Location

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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