Exam question 3 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

Select the response which most accurately characterises the meteorological conditions upon the Mole's departure.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mole · What happens: select, characteris, depart · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 33 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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	10 conditions	det
9	meteorological	meteorological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 conditions	amod
10	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 characterises	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 departure	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mole	det
13	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 departure	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Mole	case
15	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obl
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	upon the Mole's departure; accurately property	tree rules
3	depart		the Mole			nom departure «act intransitive»: 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

A chilly windy evening beneath a dark grey cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 evening	det
2	chilly	chilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evening	amod
3	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evening	amod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 cloud	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cloud	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cloud	amod
8	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloud	compound
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evening	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A cold still afternoon beneath a hard steely sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 afternoon	advmod
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	nmod:unmarked
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 sky	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sky	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sky	amod
8	steely	steely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sky	amod
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	nmod

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

Option 3

A cold still afternoon beneath a hard steely sky, with frost on every hedge and every field bare

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afternoon	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 afternoon	advmod
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 sky	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sky	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sky	amod
8	steely	steely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sky	amod
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afternoon	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frost	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 frost	case
12	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sky	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 hedge	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hedge	det
15	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frost	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 field	cc
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 field	det
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afternoon	conj
19	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 field	amod

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

Option 4

A mild breezy morning under a pale yellow sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 morning	det
2	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	breezy	breezy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	9 sun	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sun	det
7	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sun	amod
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sun	amod
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	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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