Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

Identify the character who appeared to exercise authority over the assembled party upon the bank.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, character · What happens: identify, appear, exercise, assemble · To what, where: character, authority, assembled party

This is exam question 1 of lesson 5 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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 character	det
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 appeared	nsubj
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 character	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 exercise	mark
7	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 appeared	xcomp
8	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exercise	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 party	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 party	det
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 party	amod
12	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exercise	obl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 bank	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bank	det
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exercise	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the character			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	appear	past	the character				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	exercise	to-infinitive	the character not said here	authority	the assembled party	upon the bank	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient
4	assemble	participle					vn herd-47.5.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Lory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lory	lory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The Dodo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Dodo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	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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