Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Ascertain the order of march prescribed by the Badger, exclusive of himself.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, prescribe, order · To what, where: order, march

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 order	det
3	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 march	case
5	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 order	nmod
6	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 march	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Badger	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Badger	det
9	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prescribed	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 exclusive	punct
11	exclusive	exclusive	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Badger	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 exclusive	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the order of march	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Topic
2	prescribe	participle		march not said here	tree rules
3	order			march	nom order «communication transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Mole, then Rat, then Toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Rat	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 Rat	advmod
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Toad	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 Toad	advmod
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	conj

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

Option 2

Mole first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Mole	advmod

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

Option 3

Mole first, Rat second, and Toad last at the very back of the whole line

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Mole	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Rat	punct
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	appos
5	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Mole	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Toad	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Toad	cc
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	vocative
9	last	last	ADV	_	13 back	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 back	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 back	advmod
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 line	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 line	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 line	amod
17	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mole in front, then the Rat, and Toad was placed last of all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Rat	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 Rat	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 placed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 placed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 placed	aux:pass
12	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Mole	acl:relcl
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 placed	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 last	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive	Mole in front not said here	Toad				last property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme

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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