Test 8 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Ho…

True or false: Alice knew exactly what Latitude and Longitude meant.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, Latitude · What happens: know, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 meant	obj
9	Latitude	Latitude	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 meant	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Longitude	cc
11	Longitude	Longitude	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Latitude	conj
12	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Alice						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean	past	Latitude and Longitude						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1

True

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

True: she knew what they meant, and liked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 knew	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meant	nsubj
7	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 liked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 liked	cc
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	she		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	mean	past	they		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	like	past	she not said here	them = they	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

False: she had no idea, but liked the grand words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 liked	advcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 idea	det
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 liked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 liked	cc
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 words	det
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no idea					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	like	past		the grand words					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme

Option 4

False

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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