Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter VI, how did Toad behave after Badger's talk in the smoking-room?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad, Badger · What happens: look back, behave, talk · To what, where: smoking room

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 72 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 behave	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 behave	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 behave	aux
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 behave	nsubj
11	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 talk	case
13	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 talk	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Badger	case
15	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 behave	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
18	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 smoking	punct
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talk	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	behave	past · do-support	Toad		after Badger's talk in the smoking room		vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	talk		Badger	the smoking room			nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

He went outside and sang loudly about the Chief Weasel and his own great deeds

The tree, 15 words

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sang	cc
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 sang	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 Weasel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Weasel	det
9	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Weasel	compound
10	Weasel	Weasel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 deeds	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 deeds	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deeds	amod
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deeds	amod
15	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Weasel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He					outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	He not said here					about the Chief Weasel and his own great deeds; loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about weasel=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Outside, he said he wasn't sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Outside	outside	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Outside	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sorry	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sorry	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sorry	advmod
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					outside property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	he					sorry property	tree rules

Option 3

He told the Rat he was very sorry

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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sorry	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sorry	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 sorry	advmod
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		the Rat				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rat=Recipient
2	is	past	he					sorry property	tree rules

Option 4

He sulked and ate his dinner

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	2 sulked	nsubj
2	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ate	cc
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sulked	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dinner	nmod:poss
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past	He						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	past	He not said here	his dinner					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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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