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Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

Sean, «don't be an eejit (idiot)»: «Toad cried 'cos Rat hit him.» Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Toad, Rat · What happens: sean, do, not be, cry, hit, put · To what, where: eejit, Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Sean, «don't be an eejit (idiot)»: «Toad cried 'cos Rat hit him.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sean	sean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sean	ccomp
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 eejit	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 eejit	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eejit	det
8	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 idiot	punct
10	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eejit	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 idiot	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sean	parataxis
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 hit	punct
18	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	20 hit	mark
19	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hit	nsubj
20	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hit	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sean	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Sean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sean	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	do in a quote	infinitive	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	infinitive		a eejit					tree rules
4	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Toad						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hit in a quote	past	Rat	Toad					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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.

Sentence 2: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	eejit				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1

He was upset by Rat

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 upset	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 upset	cop
3	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Rat	case
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 upset	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					by Rat; upset property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rat hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Rat	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 3

He was sad about lost cars

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 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 cars	case
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cars	amod
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					about lost cars; sad property	tree rules
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was sad about no songs

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 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 songs	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 songs	det
6	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					about no songs; sad 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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