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

Select the response which most accurately characterises the Rat's estimate of Toad's courage.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Rat · What happens: select, characteris, estimate · To what, where: response, courage

This is exam question 3 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	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 estimate	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Rat	case
11	estimate	estimate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 courage	case
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 courage	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Toad	case
15	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 estimate	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	estimate		the Rat	Toad's courage		nom estimate «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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

Toad is brave and would walk here easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walk	cc
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	aux
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brave	conj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 walk	advmod
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad					brave property	tree rules
2	walk	would	Toad not said here			here		easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Toad would come for a hatful of cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hatful	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hatful	det
6	hatful	hatful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cheese	case
8	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hatful	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	Toad					for a hatful of cheese	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Toad is a coward who would not come to the Wild Wood alone, even for a fortune in guineas

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 coward	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coward	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coward	det
4	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 coward	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wood	det
11	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	12 Wood	flat
12	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fortune	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 fortune	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 fortune	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fortune	det
18	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coward	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 guineas	case
20	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fortune	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Toad	a coward and a fortune in guineas					tree rules
2	not come	would	a coward and a fortune in guineas			the Wild Wood		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Toad would not come alone for a hatful of guineas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hatful	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hatful	det
8	hatful	hatful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 guineas	case
10	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hatful	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	would	Toad					for a hatful of guineas; alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

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