Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the…
Ascertain the persons whose attendance Toad requested of the Rat.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, attendance · What happens: ascertain, request · To what, where: persons
This is exam question 2 of lesson 47 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» 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 persons | det |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 attendance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 requested | nsubj |
| 6 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 attendance | appos |
| 7 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 persons | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Rat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rat | det |
| 10 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 requested | obl |
| 11 | . | . | 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 persons | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | ||||
| 2 | request | past | attendance | of the Rat | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
A doctor and a lawyer, and perhaps the Badger too, as soon as possible
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lawyer | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lawyer | det |
| 5 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doctor | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Badger | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Badger | cc |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 Badger | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Badger | det |
| 10 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 doctor | nmod |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 Badger | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soon | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 Badger | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 possible | mark |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soon | advcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Mole and the Badger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Badger | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Badger | det |
| 5 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mole | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A doctor and a lawyer, both from the nearest town, and urgently needed
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lawyer | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lawyer | det |
| 5 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doctor | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 town | punct |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 town | nsubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 10 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 town | amod |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doctor | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 needed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 needed | cc |
| 14 | urgently | urgently | ADV | _ | 15 needed | advmod |
| 15 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 doctor | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | participle | urgently property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A doctor and a lawyer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lawyer | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lawyer | det |
| 5 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doctor | 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.
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