Test 4 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Ho…

What would have happened if Alice had dropped the jar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: happen, drop · To what, where: jar

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 dropped	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dropped	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dropped	aux
8	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jar	det
10	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dropped	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Alice	the jar					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It might have hit and hurt somebody underneath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hit	aux
4	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hurt	cc
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hit	conj
7	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 hurt	obj
8	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	6 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	might · perfect · passive		It					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	hurt	participle		somebody				underneath property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer somebody=Patient

Option 2

It might have hit and hurt somebody underneath, and the jar would also have broken into a hundred little pieces

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hit	aux
4	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hurt	cc
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hit	conj
7	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 hurt	obj
8	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	6 hurt	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 broken	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 broken	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 broken	nsubj:pass
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 broken	aux
14	also	also	ADV	_	16 broken	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 broken	aux
16	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hit	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hundred	det
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pieces	nummod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pieces	amod
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	might · perfect · passive	It		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	hurt	participle	somebody	underneath property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer somebody=Patient
3	break	would · perfect · passive	the jar	into hundred little pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result

Option 3

It would have splashed the walls of the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 splashed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 splashed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 splashed	aux
4	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 splashed	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	would · perfect · passive		It					tree rules

Option 4

It might have landed on the cat, Dinah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 landed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 landed	aux
4	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 cat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Dinah	punct
9	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cat	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	might · perfect · passive		It				on the cat	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on cat=Destination

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