Exam question 2 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and t…

Ascertain the cause of the universal sneezing within the kitchen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, cause · To what, where: cause, universal sneezing

This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 sneezing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sneezing	det
6	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sneezing	amod
7	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nmod
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the cause of the universal sneezing				within the kitchen	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
2	cause			the universal sneezing					nom cause «event 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

A cold in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kitchen	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cold	nmod

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

Option 2

Too much smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smoke	amod
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An excess of pepper in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 excess	det
2	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 pepper	case
4	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 excess	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 excess	nmod

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

Option 4

Too much dust in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dust	amod
3	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dust	nmod

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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