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Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

★★★ «Matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.» Which of the three does Mole's sentry trick show best?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: three, Mole · What happens: handle, show, trick · To what, where: sticks

This is test 18 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «Matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 valour	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 valour	punct
5	Matchless	matchless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 valour	amod
6	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strategy	punct
8	consummate	consummate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strategy	amod
9	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 valour	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 handling	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 handling	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 handling	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 handling	amod
14	handling	handling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 valour	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 handling	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 valour	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 valour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	handle in a quote			sticks					nom handling «act transitive»: of=patient

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: Which of the three does Mole's sentry trick show best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 show	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 three	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 three	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 show	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 show	aux
6	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mole	case
8	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	compound
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	nsubj
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 show	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	the three						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
2	trick		Mole						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

Matchless valour and skill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Matchless	matchless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 valour	amod
2	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 skill	cc
4	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 valour	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Proper handling of sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 handling	amod
2	handling	handling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sticks	case
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	handle			sticks					nom handling «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Consummate strategy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consummate	consummate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Consummate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consummate	imperative	you not said here	strategy					tree rules

Option 4

Matchless valour, shown by fighting alone in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Matchless	matchless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 valour	amod
2	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shown	punct
4	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 valour	acl
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 fighting	mark
6	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shown	advcl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 fighting	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	participle		Matchless valour not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight	gerund				the dark		alone property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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