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

Identify the location in which the ferrets became immobilised during the engagement.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, immobilis · To what, where: location, ferrets

This is exam question 1 of lesson 71 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 immobilised	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ferrets	det
7	ferrets	ferret	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 immobilised	nsubj:pass
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 immobilised	aux:pass
9	immobilised	immobilis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 engagement	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 engagement	det
12	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 immobilised	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	immobilis	past · passive		the ferrets			during the engagement		tree rules

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

The back stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stairs	det
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stairs	compound
3	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The chimney

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chimney	det
2	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hall	det
2	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The attic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 attic	det
2	attic	attic	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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