Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

Identify the article distributed by the protagonist to the company as prizes.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, distribute · To what, where: article

This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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 article	det
3	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	distributed	distribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 article	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 protagonist	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 protagonist	det
7	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distributed	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 company	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 company	det
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protagonist	nmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 prizes	case
12	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 company	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the article					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent article=Theme
2	distribute	participle		the article not said here				by the protagonist to the company as prizes	vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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

Tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Comfits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comfits	comfit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cookies	cookie	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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