Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…
Identify the creature which, without having been consulted, was assigned the dustiest task of the expedition.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, consult, assign, task · To what, where: creature, dustiest task, expedition
This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 consulted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 consulted | punct |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 consulted | mark |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 consulted | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 consulted | aux:pass |
| 9 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creature | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 assigned | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 assigned | aux:pass |
| 12 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 task | det |
| 14 | dustiest | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 task | amod |
| 15 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assigned | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 expedition | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 expedition | det |
| 18 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 task | 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 | consult | gerund · perfect · passive | the creature | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme | |||||
| 3 | assign | past · passive | the dustiest task of the expedition | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: task=Theme | |||||
| 4 | task | the expedition | nom task «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 young brown pony
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pony | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pony | amod |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pony | amod |
| 4 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Mole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The old grey horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Water Rat's dog
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 | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Rat | case |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | 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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