Test 17 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…
★★★ Toad's Address had six parts. If each part took 10 minutes, how long would the Address alone last?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, Toad, part · What happens: have, address, take · To what, where: six parts
This is test 17 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Toad's Address had six parts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 Address | case |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Address | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Toad | case |
| 6 | Address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 parts | nummod |
| 9 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | ★ ★ ★ Toad's Address | six parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 2 | address | Toad | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: If each part took 10 minutes, how long would the Address alone last?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 took | mark |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 last | advmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 last | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Address | det |
| 12 | Address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 last | nsubj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 Address | advmod |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | each part | minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
One hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | 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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