Exam question 3 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at…

Select the response which most accurately characterises the Mole's resolution upon hearing these tidings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mole · What happens: select, characteris, hear, resolve · To what, where: response, tidings

This is exam question 3 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

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

That the search should wait until morning light arrives

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That a search by boat was preferable to retiring and doing nothing

Option 3

That a search by boat was preferable to retiring and doing nothing, since the Rat had already urged them on to the weir

Option 4

That a search by road was better than rowing at night

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