Exam question 4 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

Select the response most consistent with the established facts concerning the Caterpillar's final remark.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, Caterpillar · What happens: select, establish, concern, remark · To what, where: response, final remark

This is exam question 4 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	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	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 consistent	advmod
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 facts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 facts	det
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 facts	amod
9	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 consistent	obl
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 facts	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Caterpillar	det
12	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 remark	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Caterpillar	case
14	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 remark	amod
15	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	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	the established facts not said here	the Caterpillar's final remark	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus remark=Experiencer
4	remark		the Caterpillar		nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Both sides of the mushroom make you grow bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sides	det
2	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mushroom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mushroom	det
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sides	nmod
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive	both sides of the mushroom	you					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	you not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

One side makes her shrink, the other side nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 side	nummod
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shrink	nmod:poss
5	shrink	shrink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nothing	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	compound
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 makes	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	One side	side's shrink					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shrink=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One side of the mushroom causes growth, the other diminution

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 side	nummod
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mushroom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mushroom	det
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 side	nmod
6	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 diminution	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 diminution	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 diminution	amod
11	diminution	diminution	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	One side of the mushroom	growth and the other diminution					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition growth=Patient

Option 4

One side of the mushroom causes growth, and the other causes diminution, as she will learn in time

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 side	nummod
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mushroom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mushroom	det
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 side	nmod
6	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 causes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 causes	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 causes	nsubj
12	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 causes	conj
13	diminution	diminution	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 causes	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 learn	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 learn	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 learn	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 learn	aux
18	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 causes	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 time	case
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cause	present	One side of the mushroom	growth		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition growth=Patient
2	cause	present	the other	diminution		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition diminution=Patient
3	learn	future	side		time	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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