Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…
Ascertain the arrangement under which the new motor-car was to be delivered.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, deliver · To what, where: arrangement, new motor car
This is exam question 2 of lesson 45 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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 arrangement | det |
| 3 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 delivered | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 car | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 car | amod |
| 8 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 car | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 motor | punct |
| 10 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 delivered | aux:pass |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 delivered | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 delivered | aux:pass |
| 14 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arrangement | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 arrangement | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrangement=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deliver | past · passive | you not said here | the new motor car | the arrangement | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Delivered by a lorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 lorry | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lorry | det |
| 4 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Delivered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | participle | by a lorry | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Sent by train tomorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 train | case |
| 3 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sent | obl |
| 4 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sent | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | tomorrow | by train | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
On approval or return, with a free trial week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 approval | case |
| 2 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 return | cc |
| 4 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approval | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 week | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 week | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 week | det |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 week | amod |
| 9 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 week | compound |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approval | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
On approval or return
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 approval | case |
| 2 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 return | cc |
| 4 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approval | conj |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/e2/