Test 4 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Why is «OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD will be sung by the COMPOSER» funny?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: COMPOSER · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: OTHER COMPOSITIONS

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	10 sung	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 COMPOSITIONS	punct
4	OTHER	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 COMPOSITIONS	amod
5	COMPOSITIONS	composition	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sung	nsubj:pass
6	BY	by	ADP	_	7 TOAD	case
7	TOAD	TOAD	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 COMPOSITIONS	nmod
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sung	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sung	aux:pass
10	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 COMPOSER	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 COMPOSER	det
13	COMPOSER	composer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sung	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 COMPOSER	punct
15	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sung	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express in a quote	future · passive	the COMPOSER	OTHER COMPOSITIONS by TOAD				funny property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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

The singer is Badger again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 singer	det
2	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Badger	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Badger	cop
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 Badger	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the singer	Badger			again		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The composer is Toad too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 composer	det
2	composer	composer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Toad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Toad	cop
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 Toad	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the composer	Toad					tree rules

Option 3

Because the weasels will sing it too, all together, loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 sing	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weasels	det
3	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sing	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sing	aux
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sing	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 sing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 together	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 together	advmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	5 sing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sing	punct
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	future	the weasels	it				loudly, together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Because Badger wrote a song about Toad that is very rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wrote	mark
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Toad	case
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 song	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 rude	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rude	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 rude	advmod
11	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 song	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Badger	a song				about Toad	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent song=Recipient about toad=Topic
2	is	present	a song					rude property	tree rules

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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