Test 12 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter XI, why did Toad's father keep the secret passage from him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: father · What happens: look back, keep · To what, where: secret passage

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	XI	XI	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chapter	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 keep	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 father	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Toad	case
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	nsubj
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 passage	det
15	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 passage	amod
16	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 passage	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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	keep	past · do-support	Toad's father	the secret passage				from Toad	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer passage=Beneficiary from he=Eventuality

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

Toad had already been caught and punished for stealing the motor-car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	5 caught	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 punished	cc
7	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 caught	conj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 stealing	mark
9	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 punished	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 car	det
11	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 car	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 motor	punct
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive	Toad	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	punish	participle		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	steal	gerund	the motor car	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme

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

Toad «cannot hold his tongue»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Toad	parataxis
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tongue	nmod:poss
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold in a quote	can		Toad's tongue					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 3

Toad was a terrible liar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 liar	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 liar	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 liar	amod
5	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Toad	a terrible liar					tree rules

Option 4

Toad could not keep quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	could	Toad					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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