Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Looking back: which animal did Toad send off with the invitations, and what had that animal done the night before?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad, animal · What happens: look back, send off, have, do · To what, where: animal

This is test 13 · ★★★ 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	8 send	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 animal	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 send	aux
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 send	nsubj
8	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 send	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 invitations	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 invitations	det
12	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 send	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 send	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 done	mark
18	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	nsubj
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 had	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obl:unmarked
22	before	before	ADV	_	19 done	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		which animal			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	send off	past · do-support	Toad			with the invitations	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past					tree rules
4	do	participle	animal		night	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mole	det
2	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A weasel prisoner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prisoner	det
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prisoner	compound
3	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A weasel guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guard	det
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guard	compound
3	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A stoat escapee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 escapee	det
2	stoat	stoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escapee	compound
3	escapee	escapee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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