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

Ascertain the place of refuge selected by the Mole.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, select · To what, where: place, refuge

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 refuge	case
5	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 place	nmod
6	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 refuge	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Mole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mole	det
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selected	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the place of refuge					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
2	select	participle		refuge not said here				by the Mole	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 hollow of an old oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hollow	det
2	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
6	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hollow	nmod

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

Option 2

Under the roots of an ancient willow tree beside a dark and muddy pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 roots	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roots	det
3	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 tree	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
7	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roots	nmod
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 pool	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pool	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pool	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 muddy	cc
13	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dark	conj
14	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nmod

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

Option 3

The inside of a huge, hollow beech tree that had fallen across a stream

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inside	det
2	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 huge	punct
7	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
8	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inside	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fallen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fallen	aux
12	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 tree	acl:relcl
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 stream	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stream	det
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fallen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	a huge hollow beech tree			a stream			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across stream=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The hollow of an old beech tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hollow	det
2	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
6	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hollow	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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