Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All…
Identify the port from which the seafaring rat declared himself originally to hail.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, seafaring rat · What happens: identify, declare, hail · To what, where: port, rat
This is exam question 1 of lesson 58 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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 port | det |
| 3 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 declared | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rat | det |
| 7 | seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rat | compound |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declared | nsubj |
| 9 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 port | acl:relcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 declared | obj |
| 11 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 9 declared | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hail | mark |
| 13 | hail | hail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 declared | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 port | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent port=Theme | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the seafaring rat | rat | the port | originally property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute | ||
| 3 | hail | to-infinitive | the seafaring rat not said here | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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
Alexandria
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The great port of Constantinople on the Bosphorus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 port | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 port | amod |
| 3 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Constantinople | case |
| 5 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 port | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Bosphorus | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bosphorus | det |
| 8 | Bosphorus | Bosphorus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 port | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A port on the Norwegian coast near Bergen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 port | det |
| 2 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 coast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coast | det |
| 5 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coast | amod |
| 6 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 port | nmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 Bergen | case |
| 8 | Bergen | Bergen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Constantinople
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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