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

Why did four animals seem like a whole army to the weasels?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: four animals · What happens: seem

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 seem	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	aux
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 animals	nummod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seem	nsubj
5	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 army	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 army	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 army	amod
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seem	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 weasels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weasels	det
12	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seem	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past · do-support	four animals					like a whole army; to the weasels	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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 hall was dark and smoky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hall	det
2	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smoky	cc
6	smoky	smoky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dark	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Panic made them see monsters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Panic	them = they					tree rules
2	see	infinitive	them = they not said here	monsters					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus

Option 3

Fear and panic made each of the four seem like a hundred monsters to them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 panic	cc
3	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fear	conj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 seem	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 four	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 four	det
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 each	nmod
9	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 monsters	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hundred	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 monsters	nummod
13	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Fear and panic		monsters = monster			like hundred monsters	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	seem	present	each						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Panic made them see monsters, and they fled from the hall in terror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fled	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fled	nsubj
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 hall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hall	det
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 terror	case
14	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Panic	them = they			tree rules
2	see	infinitive	them = they not said here	monsters			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus
3	flee	past	monsters = monster		the hall	in terror	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hall=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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