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title: Ascertain the meteorological conditions obtaining upon the night of… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the meteorological conditions obtaining upon the night of the attack upon Toad Hall. Exam question 2 of lesson 66 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» of the books course of Mova'
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# Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer…

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Ascertain the meteorological conditions obtaining upon the night of the attack upon Toad Hall.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, meteorological conditions · **What happens:** ascertain, obtain · **To what, where:** meteorological conditions

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 66 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the meteorological conditions obtaining upon the night of the attack upon Toad Hall.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	meteorological	meteorological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the meteorological conditions |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Topic |
| 2 | **obtain** | gerund | the meteorological conditions *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily across the whole of the valley and the wood

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall:e2:o1:1
# text = Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily across the whole of the valley and the wood
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rain** | gerund |  |  |  | the whole |  | heavily *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Very dark, snowing and quite calm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall:e2:o2:1
# text = Very dark, snowing and quite calm
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	snowing	snow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall:e2:o3:1
# text = Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Very dark and blowing hard, with raining heavily and a thunderstorm rolling over Toad Hall

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall:e2:o4:1
# text = Very dark and blowing hard, with raining heavily and a thunderstorm rolling over Toad Hall
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund | a thunderstorm *not said here* |  |  | Toad Hall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hall=Trajectory |

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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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