Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tar…
Identify the means by which Alice ascertained the identity of the judge.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the, Alice · What happens: identify, mean, ascertain · To what, where: identity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» 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 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | ccomp |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ascertained | obl |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ascertained | nsubj |
| 7 | ascertained | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 identity | det |
| 9 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ascertained | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 judge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 judge | det |
| 12 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identity | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ascertain | past | Alice | the identity of the judge | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic |
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 crown he wore on his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the crown | his head | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
His great wig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wig | nmod:poss |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wig | amod |
| 3 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The wig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wig | det |
| 2 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The presence of his great wig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 presence | det |
| 2 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wig | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wig | nmod:poss |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wig | amod |
| 6 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 presence | nmod |
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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