Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at…

Identify the circumstance which occasioned the anxiety of the Otter family.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, circumstance · What happens: identify, occasion · To what, where: circumstance, anxiety

This is exam question 1 of lesson 49 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» 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 circumstance	det
3	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 occasioned	nsubj
5	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 circumstance	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 anxiety	det
7	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 occasioned	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 family	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 family	det
10	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 family	compound
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anxiety	nmod
12	.	.	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 circumstance					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent circumstance=Theme
2	occasion	past	the circumstance	the anxiety of the Otter family					tree rules

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 loss of a young otter, not yet a strong swimmer, for days

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 otter	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 otter	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 otter	amod
6	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loss	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swimmer	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 swimmer	advmod
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 swimmer	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 swimmer	det
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swimmer	amod
12	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loss	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 days	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loss	conj

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

Option 2

The disappearance of the family's cub and his swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 disappearance	det
2	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 cub	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cub	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 family	case
7	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappearance	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swimming	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 swimming	nmod:poss
10	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappearance	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear		the family's cub						nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent
2	swim		his = he						nom swimming «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Portly's absence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Portly	Portly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 absence	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Portly	case
3	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absent		Portly						nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The absence for some days of the young otter, an imperfect swimmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 absence	det
2	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 days	det
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 absence	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 otter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 otter	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 otter	amod
9	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 days	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swimmer	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 swimmer	det
12	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 swimmer	amod
13	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absence	conj

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

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