Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

★★★ «There will be other speeches by TOAD during the evening.» What is the trap in that line?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, trap · What happens: be · To what, where: other speeches

This is test 18 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «There will be other speeches by TOAD during the evening.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 speeches	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 be	punct
5	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 be	expl
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 speeches	cop
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speeches	amod
9	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 TOAD	case
11	TOAD	TOAD	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 speeches	nmod
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speeches	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 speeches	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 speeches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive	★	other speeches			evening	by TOAD	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 is the trap in that line?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trap	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the trap in that line						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It promises even more Toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promises	nsubj
2	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 Toad	amod
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promises	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	It		more Toad				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent toad=Theme

Option 2

It is a trap because the speeches will be cut short by the Rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trap	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trap	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 cut	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 speeches	det
7	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	nsubj:pass
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cut	aux:pass
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 trap	acl
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cut	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 Rat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Rat	det
14	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a trap					tree rules
2	cut	future · passive	the Rat	the speeches				short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It warns that Toad will sing the same song over and over again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warns	nsubj
2	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sing	mark
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sing	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sing	aux
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 warns	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 song	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 song	amod
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sing	obj
10	over	over	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 over	cc
12	over	over	ADV	_	10 over	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	It						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express	future	Toad	the same song			again	over property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

It hides a second speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 speech	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 speech	amod
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	It	a second speech					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient

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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