Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

How is this smoking-room talk different from the one in chapter VI?

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

This is test 15 · ★★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 talk	det
4	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 room	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 smoking	punct
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	compound
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talk	amod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 one	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 different	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 chapter	case
13	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
14	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	13 chapter	flat
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this room talk					how 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

The first talk was in the garden, and Toad fell asleep during the whole thing

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 talk	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 garden	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 garden	conj
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fell	xcomp
13	during	during	ADP	_	16 thing	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first talk			the garden			tree rules
2	fall	past	Toad				during the whole thing	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

This time Badger shouts more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	nsubj
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 time	appos
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 shouts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	this time						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

This time the talk was in the smoking-room and Toad was angry at everyone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 talk	det
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 room	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
8	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 smoking	punct
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 angry	cc
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 angry	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 angry	cop
14	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 everyone	case
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the talk			the smoking room	time		tree rules
2	is	past	Toad			everyone		angry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

This time Toad really gives in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obl:unmarked
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 time	appos
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 gives	advmod
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 gives	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in	present					time		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: 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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