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title: Identify the individual who composed «Alice's Adventures in Wonderla… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the individual who composed «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» under the name Lewis Carroll. 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, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 1 · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e1:1
# text = Identify the individual who composed «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» under the name Lewis Carroll.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	composed	compose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Adventures	Adventure	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Wonderland	Wonderland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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John Tenniel, illustrator of the first edition

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e1:o1:1
# text = John Tenniel, illustrator of the first edition
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tenniel	Tenniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	illustrator	illustrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Henry Liddell, father of the three sisters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e1:o2:1
# text = Henry Liddell, father of the three sisters
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Liddell	Liddell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e1:o3:1
# text = Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Dodgson	Dodgson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mathematics	mathematics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Alice Liddell, to whom the tale was first narrated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e1:o4:1
# text = Alice Liddell, to whom the tale was first narrated
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Liddell	Liddell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	narrated	narrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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