Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…

Ascertain the meteorological conditions obtaining upon the night of the attack upon Toad Hall.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, meteorological conditions · What happens: ascertain, obtain · To what, where: meteorological conditions

This is exam question 2 of lesson 66 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conditions	det
3	meteorological	meteorological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conditions	amod
4	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
5	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 conditions	acl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtaining	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 attack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 attack	det
11	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	nmod
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 Hall	case
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hall	compound
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 attack	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meteorological conditions					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
2	obtain	gerund	the meteorological conditions not said here				night		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily across the whole of the valley and the wood

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 dark	advmod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blowing	punct
4	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dark	advcl
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 blowing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 raining	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 raining	cc
8	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blowing	conj
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	8 raining	advmod
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 whole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whole	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 raining	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whole	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wood	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 valley	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund						hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	rain	gerund				the whole		heavily property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

Very dark, snowing and quite calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 dark	advmod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snowing	punct
4	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dark	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 calm	cc
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 calm	advmod
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dark	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	gerund							vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 dark	advmod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blowing	punct
4	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dark	advcl
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 blowing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 raining	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 raining	cc
8	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blowing	conj
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	8 raining	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund						hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	rain	gerund						heavily property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4

Very dark and blowing hard, with raining heavily and a thunderstorm rolling over Toad Hall

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 dark	advmod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blowing	cc
4	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dark	conj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 blowing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 raining	punct
7	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 raining	mark
8	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blowing	conj
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	8 raining	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thunderstorm	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thunderstorm	det
12	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dark	conj
13	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 thunderstorm	acl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 Hall	case
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Hall	compound
16	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund			hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	rain	gerund			heavily property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	roll	gerund	a thunderstorm not said here	Toad Hall		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hall=Trajectory

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