Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Woo…

Identify the three successive phenomena which assailed the Mole within the Wild Wood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, three successive phenomena · What happens: identify, assail · To what, where: three successive phenomena, Mole

This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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	5 phenomena	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 phenomena	nummod
4	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 phenomena	amod
5	phenomena	phenomena	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 assailed	nsubj
7	assailed	assail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 phenomena	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mole	det
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assailed	obj
10	within	within	ADP	_	13 Wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wood	det
12	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	13 Wood	flat
13	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 assailed	obl
14	.	.	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 three successive phenomena					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent phenomena=Theme
2	assail	past	the three successive phenomena	the Mole				within the Wild Wood	vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=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 faces, a rabbit racing past, and the whistling of the Rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 faces	det
2	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rabbit	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rabbit	det
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faces	appos
6	racing	race	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rabbit	acl
7	past	past	ADV	_	6 racing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whistling	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 whistling	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whistling	det
11	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faces	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Rat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Rat	det
14	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 whistling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	gerund	a rabbit not said here					past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whistle		the Rat						nom whistling «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Faces appearing, then a sound of whistling from many directions, and finally the strange pattering of hail

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 appearing	nsubj
2	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sound	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sound	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appearing	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 whistling	mark
8	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sound	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 directions	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 directions	amod
11	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 whistling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pattering	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pattering	cc
14	finally	finally	ADV	_	17 pattering	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pattering	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pattering	amod
17	pattering	pattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appearing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 hail	case
19	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pattering	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	gerund	Faces	a sound				the strange pattering of hail obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme
2	whistle	gerund	a sound not said here			many directions			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Faces, whistling and pattering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whistling	punct
3	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faces	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pattering	cc
5	pattering	pattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faces	conj

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

Option 4

Pattering, then faces, then wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pattering	pattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 faces	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 faces	advmod
4	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pattering	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wind	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 wind	advmod
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pattering	conj

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

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