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description: Identify the port from which the seafaring rat declared himself originally to hail. Exam question 1 of lesson 58 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All…

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Identify the port from which the seafaring rat declared himself originally to hail.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, seafaring rat · **What happens:** identify, declare, hail · **To what, where:** port, rat

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 58 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat:e1:1
# text = Identify the port from which the seafaring rat declared himself originally to hail.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	seafaring	seafaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hail	hail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the port |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent port=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the seafaring rat | rat |  | the port |  | originally *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
| 3 | **hail** | to-infinitive | the seafaring rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

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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}

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Alexandria

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat:e1:o1:1
# text = Alexandria
1	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The great port of Constantinople on the Bosphorus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat:e1:o2:1
# text = The great port of Constantinople on the Bosphorus
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bosphorus	Bosphorus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A port on the Norwegian coast near Bergen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat:e1:o3:1
# text = A port on the Norwegian coast near Bergen
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bergen	Bergen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Constantinople

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat:e1:o4:1
# text = Constantinople
1	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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