Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'…

Identify the duration of the interview between the Badger and Toad in the smoking-room.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: duration, smoking room

This is exam question 1 of lesson 46 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 interview	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 interview	det
6	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 Badger	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Badger	det
9	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 interview	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Toad	cc
11	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Badger	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
14	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 smoking	punct
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
17	.	.	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 duration of the interview between the Badger and Toad		the smoking room			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme

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 right answer

Some three-quarters of an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 quarters	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 quarters	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 three	punct
4	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quarters	nmod

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

Option 2

Some two hours or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 hours	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 so	cc
5	so	so	ADV	_	3 hours	conj

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

Option 3

Some three-quarters of an hour, during which the Rat and Mole waited outside

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 quarters	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 quarters	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 three	punct
4	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 waited	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quarters	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waited	punct
9	during	during	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 waited	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Rat	det
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 waited	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Mole	cc
14	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rat	conj
15	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	outside	outside	ADV	_	15 waited	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	some three quarters of a hour					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

About half an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 hour	det:predet
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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