Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig…

Identify the transformation undergone by the infant entrusted to the protagonist.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, undergo, entrust · To what, where: transformation, infant, protagonist

This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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 transformation	det
3	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	undergone	undergo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 transformation	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 infant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 infant	det
7	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undergone	obl
8	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 infant	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 protagonist	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 protagonist	det
11	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entrusted	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the transformation			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent transformation=Theme
2	undergo	participle		the transformation not said here		by the infant	tree rules
3	entrust	participle		the infant not said here	the protagonist		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to protagonist=Recipient

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

It became a pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It	a pig					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

It grew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	It						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It turned to dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 dust	case
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It			dust			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to dust=Trajectory

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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