Test 5 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…
Leah, «that's lush» (lovely): «Rat enjoyed telling Toad off, right?» What does the book say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leah, Rat, book · What happens: be, enjoy, tell off, say · To what, where: Toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: Leah, «that's lush» (lovely): «Rat enjoyed telling Toad off, right?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leah | Leah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lush | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lush | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 lush | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lush | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lush | cop |
| 6 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 lush | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 lovely | punct |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lush | parataxis |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 lovely | punct |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 enjoyed | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 enjoyed | punct |
| 13 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 14 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lush | parataxis |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 enjoyed | xcomp |
| 16 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 telling | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 telling | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enjoyed | punct |
| 19 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 lush | discourse |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 lush | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 lush | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Leah | lush property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enjoy in a quote | past | Rat | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell off speech: assert in a quote | gerund | Rat not said here | Toad | off property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient |
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 does the book say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | the book | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He laughed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | He | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His heart bled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bled | nsubj |
| 3 | bled | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleed | past | His heart | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
Option 3
He was truly glad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | glad, truly property | tree rules |
Option 4
He cheered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cheered | nsubj |
| 2 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past | He | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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