--- title: Identify the object whose retention was determined to be the cause o… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the object whose retention was determined to be the cause of the protagonist's diminution on this occasion. Exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears… Identify the object whose retention was determined to be the cause of the protagonist's diminution on this occasion. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, retention, protagonist · **What happens:** identify, be, diminish · **To what, where:** object, cause, occasion This is exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears:e1:1 # text = Identify the object whose retention was determined to be the cause of the protagonist's diminution on this occasion. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 retention retention NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 determined determined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 protagonist protagonist NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 diminution diminution NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the object | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | retention | | | | | determined *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | retention *not said here* | the cause | | | | of the protagonist's diminution on this occasion | tree rules | | 4 | **diminish** | | the protagonist | | | this occasion | | | nom diminution «process intransitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The bottle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears:e1:o1:1 # text = The bottle 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Gloves ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears:e1:o2:1 # text = Gloves 1 Gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The cake ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears:e1:o3:1 # text = The cake 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The fan ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears:e1:o4:1 # text = The fan 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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