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Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter VI, Toad said he'd jump into «the very first motor-car I see». How is this ending different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad, ending · What happens: look back, say, jump, see, be · To what, where: first motor car · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★★ 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: Looking back: in chapter VI, Toad said he'd jump into «the very first motor-car I see».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
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	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 jump	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 jump	aux
12	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	20 car	case
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 car	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 car	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 first	advmod
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 car	amod
18	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 car	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 motor	punct
20	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jump	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 car	acl:relcl
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 jump	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Toad not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Toad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	jump	would	Toad			the first motor car			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into car=Destination
4	see in a quote	present	Toad	the first motor car not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus

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: How is this ending different?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 different	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 different	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ending	det
4	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 different	nsubj
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 different	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this ending					different property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He keeps a promise

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 promise	det
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He	a promise					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

Option 2

He forgets it

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 forgets	nsubj
2	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	He	it					tree rules

Option 3

He forgets his promise

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 forgets	nsubj
2	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	He	his promise					tree rules
2	promise		his = he						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He breaks it

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 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	He	it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

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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