Exam question 3 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…

Ascertain the substance from which, according to the Queen, Mock Turtle Soup is prepared.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, accord, prepare · To what, where: substance, Mock Turtle Soup

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 prepared	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Queen	punct
7	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Queen	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 according	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 prepared	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Mock	punct
12	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Soup	compound
13	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Soup	compound
14	Soup	Soup	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 prepared	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 prepared	aux:pass
16	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 substance	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the substance			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Topic
2	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	prepare	present · passive		Mock Turtle Soup	the substance	accord the Queen	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product from which=Material

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 calf's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 calf	det
2	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 calf	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Mock Turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 calf	det
2	calf	calf	NOUN	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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