Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All…

Identify the agencies described as having «mastered the Water Rat and held him bound».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, describe, have, master, hold · To what, where: agencies, Water Rat, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 60 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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 agencies	det
3	agencies	agency	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 agencies	acl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 having	mark
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 mastered	punct
8	mastered	master	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 having	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rat	det
10	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Rat	compound
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mastered	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 held	cc
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mastered	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 held	obj
15	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 held	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 mastered	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the agencies		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agency=Theme
2	describe	participle		the agencies not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund				tree rules
4	master in a quote	past		the Water Rat		tree rules
5	hold in a quote	past		him = he	bound property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ✓ the right answer

The shifting grey of the seafarer's eyes and the steadfast red of the wine

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grey	det
2	shifting	shifting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	amod
3	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seafarer	det
6	seafarer	seafarer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eyes	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 seafarer	case
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grey	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 red	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 red	det
11	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	amod
12	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eyes	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wine	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wine	det
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 red	nmod

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

Option 2

The shifting eyes of the Mole and the steadfast gold of the ale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eyes	det
2	shifting	shifting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	compound
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Mole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mole	det
6	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gold	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gold	det
9	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gold	amod
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Mole	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ale	det
13	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gold	nmod

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

Option 3

The sea and the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wind	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sea	conj

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

Option 4

The seafarer's cold stare and the Rat's red wine glass on the table

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seafarer	det
2	seafarer	seafarer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stare	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 seafarer	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stare	amod
5	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glass	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rat	det
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 glass	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Rat	case
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 glass	amod
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glass	compound
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stare	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare		the seafarer						nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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