Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…

Identify the conjecture formed by Alice in respect of the Duchess's former savagery.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, form, respect · To what, where: conjecture, respect, former savagery

This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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 conjecture	det
3	conjecture	conjecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 conjecture	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Alice	case
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 formed	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 respect	case
8	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 formed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 savagery	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Duchess	det
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 savagery	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Duchess	case
13	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 savagery	amod
14	savagery	savagery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 respect	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the conjecture			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conjecture=Theme
2	form	participle		the conjecture not said here	respect of the Duchess's former savagery	by Alice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by alice=Location
3	respect			the Duchess's former savagery			nom respect «cognition 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

Pepper alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Pepper	advmod

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

Option 2

The pepper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That it was occasioned merely by the pepper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 occasioned	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 occasioned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 occasioned	aux:pass
4	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	merely	merely	ADV	_	4 occasioned	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 pepper	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pepper	det
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occasioned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occasion	past · passive	the pepper	That				merely property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That it was caused by the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 caused	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caused	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	aux:pass
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 cook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past · passive	the cook	That					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

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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