Test 3 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Ho…

Why does the book say Alice's joke about falling off the top of the house was "very likely true"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: book, joke, Alice · What happens: say, fall off, be, joke · To what, where: top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 joke	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Alice	case
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 true	nsubj
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 falling	mark
10	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 joke	acl
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 falling	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
19	very	very	ADV	_	21 true	advmod
20	likely	likely	ADV	_	21 true	advmod
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the book			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fall off	gerund	Alice's joke not said here	the top of the house		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient top=Extent
3	is in a quote	past	Alice's joke		likely, true property	tree rules
4	joke		Alice			nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Option 1

Because the top of the house was very, very high in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	11 high	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 very	punct
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the top of the house			the air		high property	tree rules

Option 2

Because she would be too frightened to speak at all later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 frightened	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frightened	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 frightened	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 frightened	csubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 speak	obl
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	she					frightened property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive				all		late property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

After such a fall she would be too hurt to say anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 fall	case
2	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fall	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fall	det
4	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hurt	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 hurt	advmod
9	hurt	hurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hurt	csubj
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	she				after such fall	hurt property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 4

She was too brave

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	4 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 brave	advmod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					brave property	tree rules

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