Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Why does Badger look at Toad «very suspiciously»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: look

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 look	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Toad	case
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 suspiciously	punct
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 suspiciously	advmod
9	suspiciously	suspiciously	ADV	_	4 look	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 suspiciously	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	Badger					at Toad; suspiciously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at toad=Theme

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

Toad seems much too calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	2 seems	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 calm	advmod
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Toad					calm property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Toad agrees much too quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	2 agrees	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 quickly	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 agrees	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Toad					quickly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Toad had been caught in a lie about the invitations and the Banquet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lie	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 invitations	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 invitations	det
10	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lie	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Banquet	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Banquet	det
13	Banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		Toad		a lie about the invitations and the Banquet			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Toad looks far too cheerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 cheerful	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cheerful	advmod
5	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Toad					cheerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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