Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…

Ascertain the sentiment expressed by the Rat concerning his river on the first night.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Rat · What happens: ascertain, express, concern · To what, where: sentiment, river

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	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 Ascertain	obj
4	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sentiment	acl
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 concerning	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	nsubj
8	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 expressed	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 river	nmod:poss
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 night	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the sentiment		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentiment=Topic
2	express	participle		the sentiment not said here		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	concern	gerund	the Rat	Rat's river	night	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus river=Experiencer

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 right answer

That he did not speak of it but thought of it continually

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 speak	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	obl
12	continually	continually	ADV	_	9 thought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	he	That				of it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	he not said here					of it; continually property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That he loved it best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 loved	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loved	obj
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	That	it					tree rules

Option 3

That he thought about it only at breakfast each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thought	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 breakfast	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he	That			day	about it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

That he spoke of it often but never really missed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spoke	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obl
6	often	often	ADV	_	3 spoke	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 missed	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 missed	advmod
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 missed	advmod
10	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	That					of it; often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not miss	past	That not said here	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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