Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

Identify the question with which the Caterpillar commenced the conversation.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Caterpillar · What happens: identify, commence · To what, where: question, conversation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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 question	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 commenced	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caterpillar	det
7	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 commenced	nsubj
8	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 question	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 conversation	det
10	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commenced	obj
11	.	.	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 question					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent question=Theme
2	commence	past	the Caterpillar	the conversation				with the question	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent conversation=Eventuality with which=Subeventuality

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

"Why?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

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

Option 2

"Are you lost?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · passive		you					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

"Hello?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hello	punct
2	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Hello	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hello	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Who are you?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Who	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Who	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you						tree rules

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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