--- title: Ascertain the consideration demanded by the elderly rabbit in respec… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the consideration demanded by the elderly rabbit in respect of passage along the private road. Exam question 2 of lesson 25 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank… Ascertain the consideration demanded by the elderly rabbit in respect of passage along the private road. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, demand, respect · **To what, where:** consideration, passage This is exam question 2 of lesson 25 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the consideration demanded by the elderly rabbit in respect of passage along the private road. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 consideration consideration NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 demanded demand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 elderly elderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 along along ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the consideration | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consideration=Topic | | 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | participle | | the consideration *not said here* | | | | by the elderly rabbit in respect of passage along the private road | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **respect** | | | passage along the private road | | | | | nom respect «cognition 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} A shilling ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river:e2:o1:1 # text = A shilling 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shilling shilling NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Two pence ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river:e2:o2:1 # text = Two pence 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 pence pence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Sixpence and a cabbage ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river:e2:o3:1 # text = Sixpence and a cabbage 1 Sixpence sixpence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cabbage cabbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Sixpence ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river:e2:o4:1 # text = Sixpence 1 Sixpence sixpence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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