Test 16 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Ho…
★★★ Alice says "Down, down, down" and the narrator says it twice. How many separate times does the phrase "Down, down, down" begin a paragraph in this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, narrator, many separate times · What happens: say, do, begin · To what, where: it, phrase, paragraph, part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★ 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 "Down, down, down" and the narrator says it twice.
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Down | punct |
| 7 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 5 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 down | punct |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 Down | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 down | punct |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 Down | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Down | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 narrator | det |
| 15 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 says | obj |
| 18 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 says | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | say speech: assert | present | the narrator | it | twice property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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: How many separate times does the phrase "Down, down, down" begin a paragraph in this part?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 3 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 does | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 phrase | det |
| 7 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 does | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Down | punct |
| 9 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 15 begin | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 down | punct |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 Down | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 down | punct |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 Down | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 begin | punct |
| 15 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 phrase | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 paragraph | det |
| 17 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begin | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 part | det |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 paragraph | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many separate times | the phrase | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | a paragraph | this part | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
0
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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