Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

Why does Badger give Mole the most important jobs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: give · To what, where: important jobs, Mole

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	4 give	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jobs	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 important	advmod
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jobs	amod
9	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	Badger	the important jobs	Mole				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient job=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 · ← Mova's choice

He is strongest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strongest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 strongest	cop
3	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					strong property	tree rules

Option 2

Mole is loyal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loyal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 loyal	cop
3	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mole					loyal property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mole can be trusted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 trusted	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trusted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 trusted	aux:pass
4	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	can · passive		Mole					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Mole is the best fighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fighter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fighter	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fighter	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 fighter	amod
5	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mole	the best fighter					tree rules

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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