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title: Identify the person for whom the White Rabbit mistook the protagonist. — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the person for whom the White Rabbit mistook the protagonist. Exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Exam question 1 · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the Whit…

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Identify the person for whom the White Rabbit mistook the protagonist.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, White Rabbit · **What happens:** identify, mistake · **To what, where:** person, protagonist

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» 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/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house:e1:1
# text = Identify the person for whom the White Rabbit mistook the protagonist.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mistook	mistake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 person |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **mistake** | past | the White Rabbit | the protagonist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His housemaid, Mary Ann

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house:e1:o1:1
# text = His housemaid, Mary Ann
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	housemaid	housemaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His cook, Nelly Brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house:e1:o2:1
# text = His cook, Nelly Brown
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Nelly	Nelly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His gardener, Peter Kell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house:e1:o3:1
# text = His gardener, Peter Kell
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Kell	Kell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Mary Ann

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house:e1:o4:1
# text = Mary Ann
1	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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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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