Exam question 3 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Ascertain the proprietor of the Cheshire Cat as declared by Alice.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, declare · To what, where: proprietor

This is exam question 3 of lesson 16 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» 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 proprietor	det
3	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
6	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Cat	compound
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proprietor	nmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 declared	mark
9	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 Alice	case
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 declared	obl
12	.	.	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 proprietor of the Cheshire Cat					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proprietor=Topic
2	declare speech: other	participle	you not said here					by Alice	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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 Queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Alice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The gardeners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardeners	det
2	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Duchess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	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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