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Exam question 3 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…

It is given that the Badger commended the Mole. Select the response which most accurately characterises Toad's disposition upon this occasion.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger, you · What happens: give, commend, select, characteris · To what, where: It, Mole, response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 69 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 Badger commended the Mole.

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	_	7 commended	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Badger	det
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 commended	nsubj
7	commended	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mole	det
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 commended	obj
10	.	.	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	commend	past	the Badger	the Mole					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=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.

Sentence 2: Select the response which most accurately characterises Toad's disposition upon this occasion.

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	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 disposition	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Toad	case
10	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 occasion	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 occasion	det
13	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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				upon this occasion; accurately property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

He was pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	cop
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					pleased property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He felt quite cheerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 cheerful	advmod
4	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					cheerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was wild with jealousy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wild	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wild	cop
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 jealousy	case
5	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wild	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					with jealousy; wild property	tree rules

Option 4

He felt angry and bitter inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bitter	cc
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 angry	conj
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					angry, inside property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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