Exam question 4 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…

Identify the first indication of the approach of the motor-car.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, motor car · What happens: identify, indicate, approach · To what, where: first indication, approach

This is exam question 4 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	4 indication	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 indication	amod
4	indication	indication	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 approach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 approach	det
7	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 indication	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 car	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 car	det
10	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 car	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 motor	punct
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 approach	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the first indication of the approach of the motor car	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent indication=Theme
2	indicate			the approach of the motor car	nom indication «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	approach		the motor car		nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

A faint warning hum like a bee in the far distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hum	det
2	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hum	amod
3	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hum	compound
4	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 bee	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bee	det
7	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hum	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 distance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 distance	det
10	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 distance	amod
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bee	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A faint warning hum, like the far-off drone of a bee among the flowers of the hedgerow, rising slowly

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hum	det
2	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hum	amod
3	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hum	compound
4	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drone	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 drone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drone	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 drone	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 drone	punct
10	off	off	ADP	_	11 drone	case
11	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hum	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bee	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bee	det
14	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drone	nmod
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flowers	det
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bee	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hedgerow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hedgerow	det
20	hedgerow	hedgerow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flowers	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rising	punct
22	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hum	acl
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 rising	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund	a faint warning hum like the far drone of a bee among the flowers of the hedgerow not said here					slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A faint warning hum like the drone of a distant bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hum	det
2	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hum	amod
3	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hum	compound
4	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 drone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drone	det
7	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hum	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bee	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bee	det
10	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bee	amod
11	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drone	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A warning hum like the drone of a bee in a field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hum	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hum	compound
3	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 drone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drone	det
6	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hum	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bee	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bee	det
9	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drone	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hum	nmod

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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