Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer…

Identify the remark by which Toad disclosed his neglect of his two friends.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Toad · What happens: identify, disclose, neglect · To what, where: remark, neglect, two friends

This is exam question 1 of lesson 67 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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 remark	det
3	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 disclosed	obl
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 disclosed	nsubj
7	disclosed	disclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remark	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neglect	nmod:poss
9	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disclosed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 friends	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friends	nmod:poss
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 friends	nummod
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 neglect	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the remark		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent remark=Theme
2	disclose	past	Toad	Toad's neglect of Toad's two friends	by the remark	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot neglect=Topic
3	neglect		Toad	Toad's two friends		nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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

«I had not thought of them at all»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 thought	advmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 thought	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	past · perfect	I			all		of them = they	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

«I had quite forgotten them»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 forgotten	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 forgotten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgotten	aux
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 forgotten	advmod
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgotten	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 forgotten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	past · perfect	I	them = they					tree rules

Option 3

«I had forgotten all about them, and I was so busy in the motor-car that I never gave them a thought»

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 them	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 busy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 busy	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 busy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 busy	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 busy	advmod
13	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forgotten	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 car	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 car	det
16	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 car	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 motor	punct
18	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 busy	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gave	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 gave	advmod
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 car	acl:relcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thought	det
25	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	past · perfect	I				about them = they	tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	I			the motor car	busy property	tree rules
3	not give in a quote	past	I	the motor car	them = they			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«I had forgotten all about them»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	4 forgotten	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	past · perfect	I					about them = they; all property	tree rules

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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