Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

Why did Toad's new behaviour give him «the greatest satisfaction»?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new behaviour · What happens: give · To what, where: greatest satisfaction, Toad

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 give	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 behaviour	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Toad	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 behaviour	amod
6	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 satisfaction	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 satisfaction	det
11	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 satisfaction	amod
12	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 satisfaction	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Toad's new behaviour	the greatest satisfaction	Toad				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

The options

Option 1

He wanted fame

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	fame					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fame=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He enjoyed boasting to Mole

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 enjoyed	nsubj
2	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 enjoyed	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Mole	case
5	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	He						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	boast speech: other	gerund	He not said here		Mole				vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mole=Recipient

Option 3

He liked the praise of guests

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 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 praise	det
4	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 guests	case
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 praise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	He	the praise of guests					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot praise=Theme
2	praise			guests					nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He enjoyed surprising Badger and Rat

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 enjoyed	nsubj
2	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Badger	amod
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 enjoyed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Rat	cc
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Badger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	He	surprising Badger and Rat					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer badger=Stimulus

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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