Exam question 3 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tar…

Ascertain the evidence furnished by the cook in respect of the composition of tarts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, furnish, respect · To what, where: evidence, respect, composition

This is exam question 3 of lesson 22 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evidence	det
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 evidence	acl
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 furnished	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 furnished	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 composition	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 composition	det
12	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 tarts	case
14	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 composition	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the evidence			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Topic
2	furnish	participle		the evidence not said here	respect of the composition of tarts	by the cook	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	respect			the composition of tarts			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That they were made mostly of pepper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	7 pepper	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 pepper	case
7	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		That				of pepper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Pepper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Mostly treacle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 treacle	advmod
2	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

That they were made mostly of treacle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	7 treacle	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 treacle	case
7	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		That				of treacle	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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