Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank…
Identify the sentiment which impelled the Mole to seize the sculls.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sentiment · What happens: identify, impel, seize · To what, where: sentiment, Mole, sculls
This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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 sentiment | det |
| 3 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 impelled | nsubj |
| 5 | impelled | impel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sentiment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mole | det |
| 7 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 impelled | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seize | mark |
| 9 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 impelled | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sculls | det |
| 11 | sculls | scull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seize | obj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 sentiment | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sentiment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | impel | past | the sentiment | the Mole | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seize | to-infinitive | the sentiment not said here | the sculls | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scull=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
Greed and impatience
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 impatience | cc |
| 3 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Greed | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Jealousy and pride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pride | cc |
| 3 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jealousy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Jealousy and pride, combined with a wish to impress the Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pride | cc |
| 3 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jealousy | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 combined | punct |
| 5 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Jealousy | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wish | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wish | det |
| 8 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 combined | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 impress | mark |
| 10 | impress | impress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 combined | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rat | det |
| 12 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 impress | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | combine | participle | Jealousy and pride not said here | with a wish | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with wish=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | impress | to-infinitive | the Rat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rat=Experiencer |
Option 4
Fear and self-doubt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 doubt | cc |
| 3 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doubt | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 self | punct |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fear | 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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