Exam question 3 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…
It is given that the first offer was «a shilling a leg» for a horse. Compute the sum thereby offered.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first offer, you · What happens: give, shill, compute, offer · To what, where: It, leg, sum
This is exam question 3 of lesson 62 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that the first offer was «a shilling a leg» for a horse.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 shilling | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 offer | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 offer | amod |
| 7 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shilling | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shilling | aux |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 shilling | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shilling | det |
| 11 | shilling | shill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 leg | det |
| 13 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shilling | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 leg | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shilling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shill in a quote | past · progressive | the first offer | a leg | for a horse | 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.
Sentence 2: Compute the sum thereby offered.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compute | compute | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sum | det |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compute | obj |
| 4 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 5 offered | advmod |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sum | acl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compute | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compute | imperative | you not said here | the sum | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Result | ||||
| 2 | offer | participle | the sum not said here | thereby property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Three shillings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shillings | nummod |
| 2 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pence | nummod |
| 2 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two shillings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shillings | nummod |
| 2 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Four shillings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shillings | nummod |
| 2 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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