Test 19 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…
★★★ «I merely served in the ranks and did little or nothing.» Which of these is TRUE from the battle chapter?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: serve, do, be · To what, where: ★ ★ ★, little, battle chapter
This is test 19 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «I merely served in the ranks and did little or nothing.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | _ | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | nmod:desc |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 served | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 served | nsubj |
| 6 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 7 served | advmod |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ranks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ranks | det |
| 10 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 served | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 served | conj |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 nothing | cc |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 little | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 served | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 served | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | past | I | ★ ★ ★ | in the ranks; merely property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in rank=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | I not said here | little | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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.
Sentence 2: Which of these is TRUE from the battle chapter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 TRUE | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 TRUE | mark |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 TRUE | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 TRUE | cop |
| 5 | TRUE | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 chapter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chapter | det |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chapter | compound |
| 9 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 TRUE | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 TRUE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the battle chapter | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Toad fought the Badger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Badger | det |
| 4 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Toad | the Badger | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Co-Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Toad fought with Otter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 Otter | case |
| 4 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Toad | with Otter | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with otter=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Toad did fight the Chief Weasel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fight | aux |
| 3 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Weasel | det |
| 5 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Weasel | compound |
| 6 | Weasel | Weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fight | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · do-support | Toad | the Chief Weasel | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weasel=Co-Agent |
Option 4
Toad ran away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | Toad | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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