Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

What would the gaoler's daughter have thought of her present?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: think

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thought	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gaoler	det
4	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 gaoler	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	aux
8	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 present	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 present	nmod:poss
11	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect	the gaoler's daughter					of daughter's present	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 · ✓ the right answer

That Toad was grateful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Toad	det
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grateful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grateful	cop
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Toad					grateful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That Toad had sent it only to show off his fine chain to the whole village

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Toad	det
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 show	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chain	nmod:poss
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chain	amod
12	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 village	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 village	amod
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		that Toad					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination it=Theme
2	show off	to-infinitive		Toad's fine chain	the whole village				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chain=Topic to village=Recipient

Option 3

That Toad was grateful and very kind, and that he had changed his ways

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Toad	det
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grateful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grateful	cop
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grateful	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 changed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 changed	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 changed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 changed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 changed	aux
13	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 grateful	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ways	nmod:poss
15	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Toad		grateful property	tree rules
2	be		that Toad not said here			tree rules
3	change	past · perfect	Toad	Toad's ways		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

Option 4

That Toad was foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Toad	det
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 foolish	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 foolish	cop
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Toad					foolish property	tree rules

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