Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Identify the instrument with which the Badger declared he would accomplish his share of the enterprise.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Badger · What happens: identify, declare, accomplish, share · To what, where: instrument, share, enterprise

This is exam question 1 of lesson 70 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 instrument	det
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 declared	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Badger	det
7	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 declared	nsubj
8	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 instrument	acl:relcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 accomplish	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 accomplish	aux
11	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 declared	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 share	nmod:poss
13	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 accomplish	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 enterprise	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 enterprise	det
16	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 share	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the instrument		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the Badger		with the instrument	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	accomplish	would	Badger	Badger's share of the enterprise		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality
4	share		Badger	the enterprise		nom share «possession 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 · ← Mova's choice

His cudgel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cudgel	nmod:poss
2	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stick	nmod:poss
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Pistol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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