Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

Identify the inference drawn by Alice concerning the verses produced in evidence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, draw, concern, produce · To what, where: inference, verses, evidence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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 inference	det
3	inference	inference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 inference	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Alice	case
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drawn	obl
7	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 drawn	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 verses	det
9	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 concerning	obj
10	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 verses	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 evidence	case
12	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 produced	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the inference			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent inference=Theme
2	draw	participle		the inference not said here		by Alice	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	concern	gerund		the verses			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus verse=Experiencer
4	produce	participle		the verses not said here	evidence		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

That they meant nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 meant	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 meant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	That	nothing					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 2

That they were clear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 clear	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clear	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					clear property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That there was not an atom of meaning in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 atom	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 That	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 atom	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 atom	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 atom	det
6	atom	atom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 meaning	case
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 atom	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 atom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	That	a atom				of meaning; in them = they	tree rules

Option 4

They were false

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 false	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 false	cop
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					false property	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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