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Test 5 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Ho…

Nan, a bit cross: "Fancy curtseying while you're falling! Ridiculous." Why is it funny?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cross · What happens: fancy, curtsey, fall, be

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Nan, a bit cross: "Fancy curtseying while you're falling!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cross	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cross	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cross	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	compound
5	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Fancy	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Fancy	punct
8	Fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	parataxis
9	curtseying	curtsey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 Fancy	xcomp
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 falling	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 falling	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 falling	aux
13	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 curtseying	advcl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 cross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy in a quote	infinitive							vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	curtsey in a quote	gerund							vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall in a quote	present · progressive	you						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Ridiculous."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ridiculous	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ridiculous	punct

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

Sentence 3: Why is it funny?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Curtseying is hard to do while falling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curtseying	curtsey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hard	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	xcomp
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 falling	mark
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curtsey	gerund							vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						hard property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is silly

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	3 silly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 silly	cop
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You cannot bow politely while tumbling through the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bow	advmod
4	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	politely	politely	ADV	_	4 bow	advmod
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 tumbling	mark
7	tumbling	tumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bow	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tumbling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bow	can	You					politely property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tumble	gerund	You not said here			the air			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location

Option 4

She is rude

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	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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