Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Why does Badger call Toad «this good fellow» even after the trouble?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: call · To what, where: Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 call	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 fellow	punct
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fellow	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellow	amod
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Toad	appos
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 fellow	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 trouble	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 trouble	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trouble	det
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	Badger		Toad				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He sees good in Toad

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 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sees	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Toad	case
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sees	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	He					in Toad; good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He still believes Toad can change and is loyal to him

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	3 believes	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 believes	advmod
3	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 change	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 change	aux
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 believes	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 loyal	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 loyal	cop
9	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 believes	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loyal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	He		still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	change	can	Toad				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	He not said here	Toad		loyal property	tree rules

Option 3

Because Toad had always been the best friend of Badger's family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 been	mark
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 been	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 been	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 been	advmod
5	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 friend	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 been	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 family	case
10	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 family	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Badger	case
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 friend	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past · perfect	Toad					always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He thinks Toad is clever

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 clever	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Toad					clever property	tree rules

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