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

Ascertain the transformation undergone by the pebbles subsequent to their arrival upon the floor.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pebbles · What happens: ascertain, undergo, arrive · To what, where: transformation

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 transformation	det
3	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	undergone	undergo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 transformation	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 pebbles	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pebbles	det
7	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 undergone	obl
8	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pebbles	amod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 arrival	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arrival	nmod:poss
11	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 subsequent	obl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrival	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the transformation		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transformation=Topic
2	undergo	participle		the transformation not said here	by the pebbles	tree rules
3	arrive		pebbles = pebble		upon the floor	nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

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

Conversion into small cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conversion	conversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 cakes	case
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cakes	amod
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Conversion	nmod

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

Option 2

Turned into little loaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 loaves	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loaves	amod
4	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle				little loaves			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into loaf=Trajectory

Option 3

Melted away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Melted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	participle						away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

They vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	They						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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