Exam question 4 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the protagonist's stature upon approaching the small house.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, approach · To what, where: response, stature, small house

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 protagonist	det
11	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stature	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 protagonist	case
13	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
14	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	15 approaching	mark
15	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 concerning	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 approaching	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the protagonist's stature		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stature=Experiencer
4	approach	gerund	the established facts not said here	the small house		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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

A foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 foot	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Eight inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nine inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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