Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the Whit…

Identify the person for whom the White Rabbit mistook the protagonist.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, White Rabbit · What happens: identify, mistake · To what, where: person, protagonist

This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» 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 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rabbit	det
7	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Rabbit	amod
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mistook	nsubj
9	mistook	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whom	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 protagonist	det
11	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mistook	obj
12	.	.	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 person					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	mistake	past	the White Rabbit	the protagonist					tree rules

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 right answer

His housemaid, Mary Ann

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 housemaid	nmod:poss
2	housemaid	housemaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Mary	punct
4	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 housemaid	appos
5	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mary	flat

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

Option 2

His cook, Nelly Brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cook	nmod:poss
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Brown	punct
4	Nelly	Nelly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Brown	compound
5	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cook	appos

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

Option 3

His gardener, Peter Kell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gardener	nmod:poss
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Peter	punct
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gardener	appos
5	Kell	Kell	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Peter	flat

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

Option 4

Mary Ann

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mary	flat

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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