Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence…

Identify the occasion of the overturning of the jury-box.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, occasion · What happens: identify, overturn · To what, where: occasion

This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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 occasion	det
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 overturning	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 overturning	det
6	overturning	overturn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 occasion	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 box	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 box	det
9	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 jury	punct
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 overturning	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the occasion					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme
2	overturn	gerund	the occasion not said here					of the jury box	tree rules

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

Alice's sneezing, unmindful of the jury-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sneezing	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Alice	case
3	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unmindful	punct
5	unmindful	unmindful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sneezing	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 box	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
8	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 jury	punct
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unmindful	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze		Alice						nom sneezing «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Alice's hasty turning in her chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hasty	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Alice	case
3	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hasty	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chair	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chair	nmod:poss
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund				Alice's chair			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in chair=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Alice's rising in haste, unmindful of her increased size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rising	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Alice	case
3	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 haste	case
5	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rising	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 unmindful	punct
7	unmindful	unmindful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rising	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 size	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 size	nmod:poss
10	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 size	amod
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unmindful	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	participle							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	rise		Alice			haste			nom rising «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 4

Alice's rising in haste, unmindful of her increased size, after the Queen shouted her name

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rising	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Alice	case
3	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shouted	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 haste	case
5	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rising	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 unmindful	punct
7	unmindful	unmindful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rising	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 size	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 size	nmod:poss
10	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 size	amod
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unmindful	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shouted	punct
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 shouted	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Queen	det
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 shouted	nsubj
16	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shouted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	increase	participle				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	shout speech: express	past	Alice's rising in haste	rising's name		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	rise		Alice		haste	nom rising «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place
4	name		rising			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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