Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…

Identify the creature dispatched down the chimney of the Rabbit's residence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, creature · What happens: identify, dispatch down · To what, where: chimney

This is exam question 1 of lesson 8 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» 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 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dispatched	nsubj
4	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 dispatched	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dispatched	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 residence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rabbit	det
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 residence	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Rabbit	case
12	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chimney	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						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	dispatch down	past	the creature	the chimney of the Rabbit's residence					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Patient

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

A young lizard named Bill, who was dispatched through the house's chimney on the Rabbit's orders

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lizard	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lizard	amod
3	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lizard	acl
5	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dispatched	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dispatched	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dispatched	aux:pass
9	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lizard	acl
10	through	through	ADP	_	14 chimney	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chimney	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 house	case
14	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dispatched	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 orders	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rabbit	det
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 orders	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Rabbit	case
19	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dispatched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a young lizard not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	dispatch	past · passive		a young lizard	the house's chimney	on the Rabbit's orders	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	order		the Rabbit				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Bill, a small lizard who was sent to climb the Rabbit's chimney

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lizard	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lizard	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lizard	amod
5	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bill	appos
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sent	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	aux:pass
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lizard	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 climb	mark
10	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sent	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Rabbit	det
12	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chimney	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Rabbit	case
14	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		a small lizard					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	climb	to-infinitive		the Rabbit's chimney					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location chimney=Theme

Option 3

A cat, Dinah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Dinah	punct
4	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cat	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bill, a Lizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lizard	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Lizard	det
4	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bill	appos

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

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