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Exam question 2 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…

It is stated that the duration of lessons diminished by one hour per day commencing at ten. Ascertain the condition of the eleventh day.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: day, you · What happens: state, diminish, commence, ascertain, condition · To what, where: It, duration, ten, condition, eleventh day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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

Sentence 1: It is stated that the duration of lessons diminished by one hour per day commencing at ten.

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	3 stated	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stated	aux:pass
3	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 diminished	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duration	det
6	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diminished	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 lessons	case
8	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 duration	nmod
9	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stated	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 hour	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hour	nummod
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diminished	obl
13	per	per	ADP	_	14 day	case
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hour	nmod
15	commencing	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 day	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 ten	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 commencing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		It					tree rules
2	diminish	participle · passive		the duration of lessons			hour		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	commence	gerund	day not said here			ten			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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.

Sentence 2: Ascertain the condition of the eleventh day.

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 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 condition	nmod
8	.	.	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 condition of the eleventh day					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
2	condition			the eleventh day					nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Lesson day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	compound
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

It was a rainy day

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	5 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a rainy day					tree rules

Option 3

Not known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 known	advmod
2	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was a holiday

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	4 holiday	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 holiday	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 holiday	det
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a holiday					tree rules

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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