Exam question 4 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Chief Weasel's commendation of «Good Toad, modest Toad, honest Toad»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Chief Weasel · What happens: follow, characteris, commend · To what, where: commendation, Good Toad

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Weasel	det
10	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Weasel	compound
11	Weasel	Weasel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 commendation	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Weasel	case
13	commendation	commendation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Toad	case
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 Toad	punct
16	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Toad	amod
17	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 commendation	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Toad	punct
19	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Toad	amod
20	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Toad	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Toad	punct
22	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Toad	amod
23	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Toad	appos
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 Toad	punct
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the Chief Weasel's commendation of Good Toad	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	commend		the Chief Weasel	Good Toad		nom commendation «communication 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

It was polite

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 polite	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 polite	cop
3	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was sarcastic, intended to excite derision

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 sarcastic	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sarcastic	cop
3	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 intended	punct
5	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sarcastic	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 excite	mark
7	excite	excite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 intended	xcomp
8	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 excite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		sarcastic property	tree rules
2	intend	participle				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	excite not said to happen	to-infinitive		derision		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus derision=Experiencer

Option 3

It was sincere praise

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	4 praise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 praise	cop
3	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 praise	amod
4	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	sincere praise					tree rules

Option 4

It was a sincere tribute to Toad

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	5 tribute	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tribute	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tribute	det
4	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tribute	amod
5	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Toad	case
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tribute	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a sincere tribute	Toad				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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