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title: Identify the conjecture formed by Alice in respect of the Duchess's… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the conjecture formed by Alice in respect of the Duchess's former savagery. Exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…

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Identify the conjecture formed by Alice in respect of the Duchess's former savagery.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, form, respect · **To what, where:** conjecture, respect, former savagery

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1:e1:1
# text = Identify the conjecture formed by Alice in respect of the Duchess's former savagery.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conjecture	conjecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	savagery	savagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the conjecture |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent conjecture=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | the conjecture *not said here* |  | respect of the Duchess's former savagery |  | by Alice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by alice=Location |
| 3 | **respect** |  |  | the Duchess's former savagery |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Pepper alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1:e1:o1:1
# text = Pepper alone
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The pepper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1:e1:o2:1
# text = The pepper
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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That it was occasioned merely by the pepper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1:e1:o3:1
# text = That it was occasioned merely by the pepper
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	occasioned	occasion	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occasion** | past · passive | the pepper | That |  |  |  | merely *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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That it was caused by the cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1:e1:o4:1
# text = That it was caused by the cook
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past · passive | the cook | That |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |

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**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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