Exam question 1 · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…

Identify the individual who composed «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» under the name Lewis Carroll.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, individual · What happens: identify, compose · To what, where: individual, Adventures, Wonderland

This is exam question 1 of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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 individual	det
3	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 composed	nsubj
5	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 individual	acl:relcl
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Adventures	punct
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Adventures	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Alice	case
9	Adventures	Adventure	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 composed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Wonderland	case
11	Wonderland	Wonderland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Adventures	nmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Adventures	punct
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 name	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 composed	obl
16	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 name	appos
17	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Lewis	flat
18	.	.	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 individual					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent individual=Theme
2	compose	past	the individual	Alice's Adventures		Wonderland		under the name	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Result

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

John Tenniel, illustrator of the first edition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Tenniel	Tenniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 illustrator	punct
4	illustrator	illustrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 John	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 edition	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edition	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 edition	amod
8	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illustrator	nmod

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

Option 2

Henry Liddell, father of the three sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Liddell	Liddell	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Henry	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Henry	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sisters	nummod
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 father	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Dodgson	Dodgson	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charles	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lecturer	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lecturer	det
5	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Charles	appos
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 mathematics	case
7	mathematics	mathematics	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lecturer	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Oxford	case
9	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lecturer	nmod

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

Option 4

Alice Liddell, to whom the tale was first narrated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Liddell	Liddell	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Alice	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 narrated	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 narrated	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 narrated	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 narrated	aux:pass
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 narrated	advmod
10	narrated	narrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Alice	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	narrate speech: other	past · passive		the tale	Alice			first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to whom=Recipient

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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