Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…
★★★ Toad sang the four-verse song twice. How many verses did he sing in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, many verses · What happens: sing · To what, where: verse song, all
This is test 18 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Toad sang the four-verse song twice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Toad | case |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 verse | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 four | punct |
| 9 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 song | compound |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | obj |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 sang | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | ★ ★ ★ Toad | the verse song | twice property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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: How many verses did he sing in all?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 verses | amod |
| 3 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sing | nsubj |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · do-support | many verses | all | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in all=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/t18/