Exam question 4 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…

Select the response which most accurately characterises the terms upon which the transaction was concluded.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, characteris, conclude · To what, where: response, transaction

This is exam question 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 characterises	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 response	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 terms	det
9	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 characterises	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 concluded	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 transaction	det
13	transaction	transaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 concluded	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 concluded	aux:pass
15	concluded	conclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 terms	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	characteris	present		the response	accurately property	tree rules
3	conclude	past · passive		the transaction	upon the terms	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Six shillings in cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 cash	case
4	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shillings	nmod

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

Option 2

Ten shillings in cash, to be paid at the next market day, together with a loaf of bread for the journey home

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 cash	case
4	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shillings	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	8 paid	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 paid	aux:pass
8	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shillings	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
12	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	compound
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loaf	punct
15	together	together	ADV	_	18 loaf	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 loaf	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 loaf	det
18	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 bread	case
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 loaf	nmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 journey	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 journey	det
23	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 loaf	nmod
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 journey	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive · passive					day		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

Six shillings and a hot breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 breakfast	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 breakfast	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breakfast	amod
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shillings	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Six shillings and sixpence in cash, together with as much breakfast as Toad could eat at one sitting

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sixpence	cc
4	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shillings	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 cash	case
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sixpence	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 breakfast	punct
8	together	together	ADV	_	12 breakfast	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 breakfast	case
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 breakfast	amod
12	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shillings	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 eat	mark
14	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 eat	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 breakfast	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 sitting	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sitting	nummod
19	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	could	Toad	much breakfast not said here		one sitting			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient

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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