Exam question 4 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the Whit…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the protagonist's dimensions relative to the Rabbit.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dimensions · What happens: select, establish, concern, relative · To what, where: response, established facts

This is exam question 4 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	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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 dimensions	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 protagonist	det
11	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dimensions	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 protagonist	case
13	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 relative	nsubj
14	relative	relative	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 facts	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Rabbit	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rabbit	det
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 relative	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	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				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	relative	present	the protagonist's dimensions	the established facts not said here	to the Rabbit	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

Approximately one thousand times as large as the Rabbit, which she had found out by growing in the hall

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 large	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 Rabbit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rabbit	det
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 large	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	nsubj:pass
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 large	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 found	compound:prt
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 growing	mark
17	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 found	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hall	det
20	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past · perfect · passive							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	grow	gerund				the hall			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location

Option 2

Around a hundred thousand times as heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADP	_	3 hundred	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heavy	obl:unmarked
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately one thousand times as large, or about the size of a house in the garden of the Duchess

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 large	obl
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 large	case
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 size	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 size	cc
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 size	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 size	det
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 large	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 size	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 size	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Duchess	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Duchess	det
20	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 garden	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately one thousand times as large

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 large	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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