Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All…

Identify the season in which the events of the ninth chapter commence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, events · What happens: identify, commence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 56 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 commence	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 events	det
7	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 commence	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 chapter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chapter	det
10	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chapter	amod
11	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 events	nmod
12	commence	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 season	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here				season		vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	commence	present	the events of the ninth chapter				in the season		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

Late autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 autumn	amod
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The end of summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 end	det
2	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 summer	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The close of summer, the fields having turned from green to gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 close	det
2	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 summer	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 close	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 close	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	nsubj
8	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 turned	aux
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 green	case
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turned	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund · perfect · passive		the close of summer		green		to gold	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme from green=Source to gold=Trajectory

Option 4

The height of summer, with the fields all changed from green to gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 height	det
2	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 changed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 summer	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 height	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fields	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fields	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 height	conj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 changed	advmod
10	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 green	case
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 changed	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the height of summer and the fields			green		to gold result; all property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from green=Initial_State to gold=Result

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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