Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank…

Ascertain the consideration demanded by the elderly rabbit in respect of passage along the private road.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, demand, respect · To what, where: consideration, passage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 25 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consideration	det
3	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	demanded	demand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 consideration	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 rabbit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rabbit	det
7	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rabbit	amod
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demanded	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 respect	case
10	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rabbit	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 passage	case
12	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 respect	nmod
13	along	along	ADP	_	16 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
15	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 road	amod
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passage	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the consideration		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consideration=Topic
2	demand speech: request	participle		the consideration not said here	by the elderly rabbit in respect of passage along the private road	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	respect			passage along the private road		nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

A shilling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shilling	det
2	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Two pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pence	nummod
2	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Sixpence and a cabbage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cabbage	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cabbage	det
4	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sixpence	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sixpence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	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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