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Test 1 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

Daisy, «humble brag» alert: «Toad's 'I did little or nothing' is fake, he's boasting!» Best answer from the book?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: be, boast

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 73 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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: Daisy, «humble brag» alert: «Toad's 'I did little or nothing' is fake, he's boasting!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 alert	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brag	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 brag	punct
4	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brag	amod
5	brag	brag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Daisy	appos
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 brag	punct
7	alert	alert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 fake	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 did	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Toad	case
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fake	aux
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nothing	amod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 nothing	cc
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 did	obj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fake	cop
20	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 alert	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boasting	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 boasting	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 boasting	aux
24	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 fake	parataxis
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 boasting	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 fake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past · do-support						fake property	tree rules
2	boast speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	Toad						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Best answer from the book?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

He is truly humble

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 humble	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 humble	cop
3	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 humble	advmod
4	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					humble, truly property	tree rules

Option 2

He thinks he did everything

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	he	everything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He wants to look grand, so he brags

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brags	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 brags	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brags	nsubj
9	brags	brag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	brag speech: other	present	he						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He enjoys seeming modest, but gives the credit away

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 enjoys	nsubj
2	enjoys	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seeming	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 enjoys	xcomp
4	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seeming	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 gives	cc
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 enjoys	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 credit	det
9	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	present	He						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	seem	gerund	He not said here					modest property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	give away	present	He not said here	the credit				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent credit=Theme

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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