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Exam question 3 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

It is given that the Badger entrusted a task to the Mole in preference to the Rat. State the reason he advanced.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: give, entrust, advance · To what, where: It, task, Mole, reason

This is exam question 3 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

Sentence 1: It is given that the Badger entrusted a task to the Mole in preference to the Rat.

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 entrusted	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Badger	det
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 entrusted	nsubj
7	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 task	det
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entrusted	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Mole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mole	det
12	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entrusted	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 preference	case
14	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Mole	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Rat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rat	det
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 preference	nmod
18	.	.	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	entrust	past	the Badger	a task	the Mole in preference to the Rat				vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent task=Theme to mole=Recipient

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: State the reason he advanced.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 advanced	nsubj
5	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl:relcl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advance	past	Badger	the reason not said here					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer reason=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Rat was lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Rat was too far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 away	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That the Rat was a poet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Rat	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 poet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poet	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poet	det
6	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Rat	a poet					tree rules

Option 4

Rat is a poet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 poet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poet	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poet	det
4	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rat	a poet					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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