Exam question 3 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

Ascertain the true nature of the objects which, in the dream, descended upon Alice as a pack of cards.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, descend · To what, where: true nature, dream

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nature	amod
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 objects	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 objects	det
7	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nature	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Ascertain	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dream	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dream	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dream	det
12	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 descended	punct
14	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 dream	acl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 Alice	case
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 descended	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 pack	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pack	det
19	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 descended	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 cards	case
21	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pack	nmod
22	.	.	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 true nature of the objects		the dream			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition nature=Beneficiary which=Theme
2	descend	participle		the dream not said here				upon Alice; as a pack of cards	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Dead leaves fluttering down from the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fluttering	nsubj
3	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fluttering	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fluttering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter down	gerund	Dead leaves			the trees		down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Dead leaves fluttering down from the trees in the autumn garden, as her sister's dream showed

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 showed	nsubj
3	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 leaves	acl
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fluttering	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fluttering	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 garden	compound
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dream	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 dream	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dream	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 sister	case
17	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	conj
18	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	flutter down	gerund	Dead leaves and her sister's dream not said here	the trees in the autumn garden	down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	past	Dead leaves and her sister's dream			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dream		her sister			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Snowflakes drifting down from clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Snowflakes	acl
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 drifting	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 clouds	case
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drifting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift down	gerund	Snowflakes not said here			clouds		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cloud=Trajectory

Option 4

Rain falling from the grey sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Rain	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sky	amod
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	Rain not said here			the grey sky			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/e3/