Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank…

Identify the creature whose arrival was heralded by a streak of bubbles upon the surface of the water.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, herald · To what, where: creature, arrival

This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 arrival	nmod:poss
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heralded	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heralded	aux:pass
7	heralded	herald	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 creature	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 streak	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 streak	det
10	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heralded	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bubbles	case
12	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 streak	nmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 surface	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 surface	det
15	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bubbles	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surface	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the creature					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	herald	past · passive		arrival				by a streak of bubbles upon the surface of the water	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

The Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Badger	det
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Otter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Otter	det
2	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The Water Rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
2	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rat	compound
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	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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