Exam question 4 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

Select the response most consistent with the established facts concerning the protagonist's recitation of verse.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, protagonist · What happens: select, establish, concern, recite · To what, where: response, recitation, verse

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 consistent	advmod
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 facts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 facts	det
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 facts	amod
9	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 consistent	obl
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 facts	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 protagonist	det
12	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recitation	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 protagonist	case
14	recitation	recitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 verse	case
16	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recitation	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the protagonist's recitation of verse	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus recitation=Experiencer
4	recite		the protagonist	verse	nom recitation «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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

It was about a cat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					about a cat	tree rules

Option 2

The verse was recited correctly and about fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 verse	det
2	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recited	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recited	aux:pass
4	recited	recite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 recited	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fish	cc
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 fish	case
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recited	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite	past · passive		the verse				correctly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The words emerged altered, concerning a crocodile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 altered	nsubj:pass
3	emerged	emerge	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 altered	aux:pass
4	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 concerning	punct
6	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 altered	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crocodile	det
8	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concerning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alter	past · passive		the words					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	concern	gerund		a crocodile					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crocodile=Experiencer

Option 4

The words came out wrong, about a tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tortoise	punct
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 tortoise	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tortoise	det
9	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the words					out, wrong property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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