Test 11 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Ho…

Gran from Glasgow: "Wee Alice was dreamin' the whole way doon, aye?" ("wee" = little, "doon" = down.) Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Alice dreamin

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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

Sentence 1: Gran from Glasgow: "Wee Alice was dreamin' the whole way doon, aye?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Glasgow	case
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 dreamin	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dreamin	punct
6	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Alice	amod
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dreamin	compound
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dreamin	cop
9	dreamin	dreamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	appos
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 dreamin	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	appos
14	doon	doon	ADV	_	13 way	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 aye	punct
16	aye	aye	INTJ	_	1 Gran	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 aye	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 aye	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		Alice dreamin					tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: ("wee" = little, "doon" = down.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 wee	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wee	punct
3	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wee	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	6 little	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wee	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doon	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 doon	punct
9	doon	doon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wee	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 doon	punct
11	=	=	SYM	_	12 down	punct
12	down	down	ADV	_	3 wee	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wee	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 wee	punct

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

Sentence 3: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She decided to stop and climb back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 decided	nsubj
2	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stop	mark
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decided	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 climb	cc
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stop	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	6 climb	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	decide	past	She	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	climb	infinitive	She not said here	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She began to doze off, and then began to dream about her cat Dinah and the milk she loved so much at tea-time

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 doze	mark
4	doze	doze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 doze	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 began	advmod
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dream	mark
11	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	about	about	ADP	_	15 Dinah	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cat	nmod:poss
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Dinah	compound
15	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dream	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 milk	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 milk	det
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Dinah	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 loved	nsubj
20	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 milk	acl:relcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	11 dream	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 time	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 tea	punct
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dream	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	She				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	doze off	to-infinitive	She not said here				vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	She not said here		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dream	to-infinitive	She not said here		time	about cat Dinah and the milk	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dinah=Topic
5	love	past	she	the milk not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer milk=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She began to doze and dream about Dinah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 doze	mark
4	doze	doze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dream	cc
6	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 doze	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 Dinah	case
8	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dream	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	She		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	doze	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dream	infinitive	She not said here	about Dinah	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dinah=Topic

Option 4

She began to wake and think about the Rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wake	mark
4	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 think	cc
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wake	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 Rabbit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rabbit	det
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	She		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wake	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	think speech: other	infinitive	She not said here	about the Rabbit	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about rabbit=Topic

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