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

Identify the effect produced upon the creatures of the Wild Wood by the appearance of the Rat.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, produce · To what, where: effect

This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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	3 effect	det
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 effect	acl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 creatures	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creatures	det
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 produced	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wood	det
10	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	11 Wood	flat
11	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 creatures	nmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 appearance	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 appearance	det
14	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 produced	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Rat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rat	det
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 appearance	nmod
18	.	.	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 effect					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent effect=Theme
2	produce	participle		the effect not said here				upon the creatures of the Wild Wood; by the appearance of the Rat	vn create-26.4 «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

They vanished immediately, leaving the Mole alone with only the Rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 vanished	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leaving	punct
5	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 vanished	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaving	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 leaving	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 Rat	case
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 Rat	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Rat	det
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	They					immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	They not said here	the Mole				with the Rat; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient with rat=Theme

Option 2

They all turned to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 turned	advmod
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They gathered around the Rat and bowed to him before quietly disappearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 Rat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gathered	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bowed	cc
7	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bowed	obl
10	before	before	ADV	_	7 bowed	advmod
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 bowed	advmod
12	disappearing	disappear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 bowed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	They		the Rat		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bow	past	They not said here	him = he		before, quietly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot
3	disappear	gerund	They not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They vanished immediately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 vanished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	They					immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/e1/