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

Select the response which most accurately characterises the Rat's diagnosis of Toad's condition.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Rat, Toad · What happens: select, characteris, diagnose, condition · To what, where: response, condition

This is exam question 3 of lesson 32 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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 Rat	det
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 diagnosis	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Rat	case
11	diagnosis	diagnosis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 condition	case
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 condition	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Toad	case
15	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 diagnosis	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	diagnose		the Rat	Toad's condition		nom diagnosis «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
4	condition		Toad			nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

That he was possessed by a new craze and would be useless for some days

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 possessed	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possessed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possessed	aux:pass
4	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 craze	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 craze	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 craze	amod
8	craze	craze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 useless	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 useless	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 useless	cop
12	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 possessed	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 days	det
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 useless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	past · passive	a new craze	That					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	is	would	a new craze not said here				day	useless property	tree rules

Option 2

That he was possessed by a new craze and would be useless for some days, and would then quickly be cured

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 possessed	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possessed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possessed	aux:pass
4	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 craze	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 craze	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 craze	amod
8	craze	craze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 useless	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 useless	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 useless	cop
12	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 possessed	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 days	det
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 useless	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cured	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cured	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cured	aux
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 cured	advmod
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	22 cured	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 cured	aux:pass
22	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 possessed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	possess	past · passive	a new craze	That			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	is	would	a new craze not said here		day	useless property	tree rules
3	cure	would · passive	a new craze not said here		then	quickly property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»

Option 3

That Toad was just being silly today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Toad	det
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 silly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silly	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 silly	advmod
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 silly	cop
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Toad				today	silly property	tree rules

Option 4

That he had caught a nasty cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 caught	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	amod
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		That					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cold=Theme

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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