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Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Ella: «Badger and Rat are just mean, they want Toad to be boring.» Best answer from the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, Toad · What happens: be, want · To what, where: Toad

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Ella: «Badger and Rat are just mean, they want Toad to be boring.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mean	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Badger	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Badger	punct
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ella	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Rat	cc
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ella	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 want	nsubj
12	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	parataxis
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 want	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 boring	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 boring	cop
16	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 want	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Ella and Badger and Rat					mean property	tree rules
2	want in a quote	present	Ella	Toad					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot toad=Theme
3	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Toad not said here					boring 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.

Sentence 2: Best answer from the story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They want him to be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 quiet	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 quiet	cop
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					quiet property	tree rules

Option 2

They hate Toad's singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 singing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Toad	case
5	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	They	Toad's singing					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer singing=Stimulus
2	sing		Toad						nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They want him respected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They	him = he					tree rules
2	respect not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They want quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They					quiet property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot

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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