Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

Ascertain to whom Toad attributed the «mastermind» of the recapture of Toad Hall.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Toad · What happens: ascertain, attribute, recapture · To what, where: mastermind, Toad Hall

This is exam question 2 of lesson 73 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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	to	to	ADP	_	3 whom	case
3	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 attributed	obl
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 attributed	nsubj
5	attributed	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mastermind	det
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 mastermind	punct
8	mastermind	mastermind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attributed	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 mastermind	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 recapture	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 recapture	det
12	recapture	recapture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mastermind	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Hall	case
14	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Hall	compound
15	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 recapture	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	attribute	past	Toad	the mastermind of the recapture of Toad Hall	tree rules
3	recapture			Toad Hall	nom recapture «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

The Mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The Toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The Otter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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