Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

«I'd send Rat, if he wasn't a poet.» What is Badger joking about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Rat, Badger · What happens: send, not be, joke · To what, where: Rat, poet

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: «I'd send Rat, if he wasn't a poet.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 send	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 send	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 poet	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 poet	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 poet	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 poet	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 poet	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 poet	det
12	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send in a quote	would	I	Rat					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
2	not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Rat	a poet					tree rules

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: What is Badger joking about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 joking	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joking	aux
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 joking	nsubj
4	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 joking	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 joking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	Badger					about property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Poets are dreamy and might forget the job, so he's teasing Rat about it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dreamy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dreamy	cop
3	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forget	cc
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dreamy	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 job	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forget	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 teasing	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 teasing	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 teasing	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 teasing	aux
13	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dreamy	parataxis
14	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 teasing	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 teasing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Poets		dreamy property	tree rules
2	forget	might	Poets not said here	the job		tree rules
3	tease	present · progressive	he	Rat	about job	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient

Option 2

Badger is joking that Rat would write poems instead of guarding the stoats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 joking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 joking	aux
3	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 write	mark
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 write	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 write	aux
7	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 joking	xcomp
8	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 write	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 guarding	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 write	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stoats	det
13	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	Badger		tree rules
2	write	would	Rat	poems	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme
3	guard	gerund	Rat not said here	the stoats	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stoat=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Poets are dreamy and might forget the job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dreamy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dreamy	cop
3	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forget	cc
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dreamy	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 job	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Poets					dreamy property	tree rules
2	forget	might	Poets not said here	the job					tree rules

Option 4

Rats are poor sentries at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sentries	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sentries	cop
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sentries	amod
4	sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sentries	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rats	poor sentries			night		tree rules

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