Test 9 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

Why is Toad's thank-you to Mole important?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thank · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thank	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Toad	case
5	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 you	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	flat
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Mole	case
9	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thank	nmod
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thank	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad's thank to Mole					why property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Toad apologises to the stoats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 apologises	nsubj
2	apologises	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 stoats	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stoats	det
5	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 apologises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	present	Toad					to the stoats	tree rules

Option 2

Toad puts away his jealousy, so the friendship survives the Wild Wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 puts	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 jealousy	nmod:poss
5	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 survives	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 survives	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 friendship	det
9	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 survives	nsubj
10	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 puts	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wood	det
12	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	13 Wood	flat
13	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 survives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put away	present	Toad	Toad's jealousy				away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jealousy=Goal
2	survive	present	the friendship	the Wild Wood					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Circumstance

Option 3

It shows Toad feels grateful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 feels	nsubj
4	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
5	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	feel	present	Toad					grateful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Toad puts away his jealousy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 puts	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 jealousy	nmod:poss
5	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put away	present	Toad	Toad's jealousy				away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jealousy=Goal

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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