Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank…
Ascertain the utterance with which the Badger acknowledged the presence of the party before withdrawing.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Badger · What happens: ascertain, acknowledge, withdraw · To what, where: utterance, presence
This is exam question 2 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 utterance | det |
| 3 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 acknowledged | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Badger | det |
| 7 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 8 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 utterance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 presence | det |
| 10 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 acknowledged | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 party | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 party | det |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presence | nmod |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 withdrawing | mark |
| 15 | withdrawing | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 acknowledged | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | 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 utterance | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Topic | ||||
| 2 | acknowledge | past | the Badger | the presence of the party | with the utterance | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Topic | |||
| 3 | withdraw | gerund | the Badger not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
«Good day»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
«Hullo, Mole»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mole | punct |
| 2 | Hullo | hullo | INTJ | _ | 4 Mole | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hullo | punct |
| 4 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mole | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«H'm! Company»
Sentence 1: «H'm!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 'm | punct |
| 2 | H | h | INTJ | _ | 3 'm | discourse |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 'm | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Company»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Company | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
«Hm»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hm | punct |
| 2 | Hm | hm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hm | punct |
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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