Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

Looking back: in chapter I, the Rat said of the Wide World beyond the Wild Wood, «I've never been there, and I'm never going». Who in the book went out into the wide world, and came home again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, say, not be, not go, go out, come · To what, where: book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★★ 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 I, the Rat said of the Wide World beyond the Wild Wood, «I've never been there, and I'm never going».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chapter	csubj
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	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rat	det
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chapter	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 World	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 World	det
13	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 World	amod
14	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	18 Wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Wood	det
17	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	18 Wood	flat
18	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 there	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 there	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 there	nsubj
22	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 there	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 there	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 there	cop
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 Wood	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 going	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 going	nsubj
29	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 going	advmod
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 there	parataxis
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Rat	of the Wide World	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present · perfect	the Rat = rat	there property	tree rules
4	not go in a quote	present · progressive	the Rat = rat		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Who in the book went out into the wide world, and came home again?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 went	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 book	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past				the book		into the wide world; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past					again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Mole, who went out and came back to Mole End

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 End	case
11	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 End	compound
12	End	End	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the Mole					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come back	past	the Mole not said here				to Mole End		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

Option 3

Otter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	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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