Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter I, what was the very first thing the Mole did in the book?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapter, Mole · What happens: look back, be, do · To what, where: first thing, book

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 thing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 first	advmod
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chapter	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mole	det
15	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 book	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 book	det
19	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				in chapter and the first thing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	is a	past	chapter and the first thing	the first thing			tree rules
3	do	past	the Mole	the first thing not said here	the book		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

Sweeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweeping	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Spring-cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaning	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Spring	punct
3	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Leaving his home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 home	nmod:poss
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		his home					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 4

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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