Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…
★★★ The weasels saw animals «grey, black, brown and yellow». Badger is grey and Mole black. Which two colours are left for the Rat and Toad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Badger · What happens: see, be, leave · To what, where: animals, two colours
This is test 16 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ The weasels saw animals «grey, black, brown and yellow».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weasels | det |
| 5 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 grey | punct |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 black | punct |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grey | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brown | punct |
| 13 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grey | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 yellow | cc |
| 15 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brown | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 grey | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ★ | animals | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus |
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: Badger is grey and Mole black.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grey | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grey | cop |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 black | cc |
| 5 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 black | compound |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grey | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Badger | grey property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Badger not said here | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Which two colours are left for the Rat and Toad?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 left | obj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 colours | nummod |
| 3 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Rat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rat | det |
| 8 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Toad | cc |
| 10 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rat | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | two colours | for the Rat and Toad | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Brown and white
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 white | cc |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Brown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Brown and yellow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 yellow | cc |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Brown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yellow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yellow and red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 red | cc |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Yellow | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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