Exam question 3 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road…
Select the response which most accurately characterises the motto professed by Toad.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, characteris, profess · To what, where: response, motto
This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 characterises | obj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 accurately | advmod |
| 6 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 7 characterises | advmod |
| 7 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 response | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 motto | det |
| 9 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characterises | obj |
| 10 | professed | profess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 motto | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Toad | case |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 professed | obl:agent |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the response | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | ||||
| 2 | characteris | present | the response | accurately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | profess | participle | the motto not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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
«Boats are best!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| 2 | Boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Boats | good property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
«Live for others!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| 2 | Live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 others | case |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Live | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | imperative | you not said here | for others | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
«Live well»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| 2 | Live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Live | advmod |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | imperative | you not said here | well property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
«Be wise»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wise | cop |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | wise property | tree rules |
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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