Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (b…
Ascertain the number of motor-car accidents attributed to Toad as at the time of the Rat's report.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, number, Rat · What happens: ascertain, attribute, report · To what, where: Toad
This is exam question 1 of lesson 38 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attributed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 accidents | case |
| 5 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 car | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 motor | punct |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accidents | compound |
| 8 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 attributed | obl |
| 9 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ascertain | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Toad | case |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 attributed | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attributed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 report | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rat | det |
| 18 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 report | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Rat | case |
| 20 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | attribute | past | the number | Toad | time | of car accidents | tree rules | ||
| 3 | report | the Rat | nom report «communication transitive»: 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
Seven cars, all smashed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 cars | nummod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smashed | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 smashed | det |
| 5 | smashed | smashed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cars | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven, counting the coach-house wrecks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 counting | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 counting | punct |
| 3 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wrecks | det |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 coach | punct |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrecks | compound |
| 8 | wrecks | wreck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | Seven | the house wrecks | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreck=Theme |
Option 4
Nine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
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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