Test 15 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Ho…
★★★ Alice says the centre of the earth is "four thousand miles down". If she has fallen all the way to the middle, how much farther to come out on the other side?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, centre · What happens: say, be, fall, come out · To what, where: way, other side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 15 · ★ 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: ★★★ Alice says the centre of the earth is "four thousand miles down".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Alice | case |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 centre | det |
| 7 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 down | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centre | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 down | cop |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 down | punct |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 thousand | compound |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 miles | nummod |
| 15 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 down | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 says | ccomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 down | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ ★ Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the centre of the earth | thousand miles obl:unmarked; down property | 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: If she has fallen all the way to the middle, how much farther to come out on the other side?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fallen | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 farther | advcl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 way | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 middle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 farther | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 farther | advmod |
| 14 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 farther | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 side | amod |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 farther | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · perfect | ★ | all way | to the middle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to middle=Theme | |||
| 2 | come out | to-infinitive | the other side | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About four thousand miles more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thousand | compound |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 more | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About four thousand miles back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thousand | compound |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 miles | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Few miles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 miles | amod |
| 2 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
None at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 None | nmod |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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