Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…

Identify the object whose retention was determined to be the cause of the protagonist's diminution on this occasion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, retention, protagonist · What happens: identify, be, diminish · To what, where: object, cause, occasion

This is exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 retention	nmod:poss
5	retention	retention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 determined	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 determined	cop
7	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 object	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	11 cause	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 cause	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cause	det
11	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 determined	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 diminution	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 protagonist	det
14	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 diminution	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 protagonist	case
16	diminution	diminution	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cause	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 occasion	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 occasion	det
19	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 diminution	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	is	past	retention			determined property	tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	retention not said here	the cause		of the protagonist's diminution on this occasion	tree rules
4	diminish		the protagonist		this occasion		nom diminution «process intransitive»: poss=agent on=place

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

The bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The fan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fan	det
2	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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