Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…
Identify the effect produced upon the protagonist by consumption of the right-hand portion of the mushroom.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, produce, consume · To what, where: effect, hand portion
This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 effect | det |
| 3 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 effect | acl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 protagonist | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 protagonist | det |
| 7 | protagonist | protagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 produced | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 consumption | case |
| 9 | consumption | consumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 produced | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 portion | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 portion | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 portion | compound |
| 15 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consumption | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mushroom | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mushroom | det |
| 18 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 portion | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the effect | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | ||||
| 2 | produce | participle | the effect not said here | upon the protagonist; by consumption of the hand portion of the mushroom | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | consume | the hand portion of the mushroom | nom consumption «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 right answer
A rapid diminution of stature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 diminution | det |
| 2 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 diminution | amod |
| 3 | diminution | diminution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stature | case |
| 5 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 diminution | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | diminish | stature | nom diminution «process intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 2
A sudden increase in height
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 increase | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 increase | amod |
| 3 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 height | case |
| 5 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increase | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Growth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 change | det |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | 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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