Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…
Ascertain the category of creatures which, according to the Rat, cannot be wholly trusted.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, accord, not trust · To what, where: category, Rat
This is exam question 2 of lesson 26 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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 category | det |
| 3 | category | category | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 creatures | case |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 category | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Rat | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rat | punct |
| 8 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Rat | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 according | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rat | det |
| 11 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 creatures | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trusted | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 trusted | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 trusted | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 trusted | aux:pass |
| 16 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 17 trusted | advmod |
| 17 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Rat | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the category of creatures accord the Rat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent category=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not trust | can · passive | the Rat not said here | wholly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |
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
Squirrels and rabbits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rabbits | cc |
| 3 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Squirrels | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Every animal living in the Wild Wood, without exception at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 living | nsubj |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wood | det |
| 6 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 7 Wood | flat |
| 7 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 living | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exception | punct |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 exception | case |
| 10 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 living | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 exception | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | every animal | the Wild Wood | without exception at all | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
Option 3
Weasels, stoats, foxes and the Badger too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stoats | punct |
| 3 | stoats | stoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Weasels | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 foxes | punct |
| 5 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Weasels | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Badger | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Badger | det |
| 8 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Weasels | conj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Weasels | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Weasels, stoats and foxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stoats | punct |
| 3 | stoats | stoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Weasels | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 foxes | cc |
| 5 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Weasels | conj |
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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