Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Ad…

Identify the reason assigned by the narrator for the omission of the remainder of Toad's song.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Toad · What happens: identify, assign, omit, sing · To what, where: reason, remainder

This is exam question 1 of lesson 63 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 narrator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 omission	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 omission	det
10	omission	omission	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 remainder	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 remainder	det
13	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 omission	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 song	case
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 song	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Toad	case
17	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remainder	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	assign	participle		the reason not said here	by the narrator; for the omission of the remainder of Toad's song goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for omission=Goal
3	omit			the remainder of Toad's song		nom omission «act transitive»: of=patient
4	sing		Toad			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Too silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 silly	advmod
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because Toad asked the narrator to keep it hidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 asked	mark
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Toad	the narrator					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent narrator=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the narrator not said here	narrator				hidden property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That it was too dreadfully conceited to be written down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 conceited	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 conceited	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conceited	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 dreadfully	advmod
5	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	6 conceited	advmod
6	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 written	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 written	aux:pass
9	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 conceited	xcomp
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 written	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					conceited, dreadfully property	tree rules
2	write down	to-infinitive · passive	That not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»

Option 4

Because the printer was busy with other work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 busy	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 printer	det
3	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	cop
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 work	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 work	amod
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the printer					with other work; busy property	tree rules

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