Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…
★★★ The coffee-pot was «three-fourths empty». What fraction of the coffee was left for Toad?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coffee pot · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: fraction
This is test 16 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ The coffee-pot was «three-fourths empty».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | SCONJ | _ | 13 empty | mark |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 5 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 coffee | punct |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empty | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 empty | cop |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 empty | punct |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 fourths | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 three | punct |
| 12 | fourths | fourth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 empty | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ★ | advcl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 empty | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the coffee pot | three fourths obl:unmarked; empty 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: What fraction of the coffee was left for Toad?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 fraction | det |
| 2 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coffee | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coffee | det |
| 5 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fraction | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Toad | case |
| 9 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | what fraction of the coffee | for Toad | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for toad=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Three quarters of the coffee was actually left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 quarters | nummod |
| 2 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coffee | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coffee | det |
| 5 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quarters | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 left | advmod |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Three quarters of the coffee | actually property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
One third
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 third | nummod |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One quarter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 quarter | nummod |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only a tiny spoonful at the very bottom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 spoonful | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spoonful | det |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoonful | amod |
| 4 | spoonful | spoonful | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 bottom | advmod |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoonful | nmod |
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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