Exam question 2 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

Ascertain the approximate depth of the pool formed by the tears of the protagonist.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, form · To what, where: approximate depth, pool

This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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 depth	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 depth	amod
4	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 depth	nmod
8	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pool	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 tears	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tears	det
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 formed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 protagonist	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 protagonist	det
14	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tears	nmod
15	.	.	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 approximate depth of the pool					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Topic
2	form	participle		the pool not said here				by the tears of the protagonist	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tear=Location

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

Two feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Two inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Four inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Six inches deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 deep	obl:unmarked
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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