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Test 15 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

★★★ The Pigeon says: serpents eat eggs; little girls eat eggs; so little girls are serpents. Which argument has the SAME mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, serpents, little girls, argument · What happens: say, eat, be, have · To what, where: eggs, serpents, SAME mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» 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: ★★★ The Pigeon says: serpents eat eggs; little girls eat eggs; so little girls are serpents.

nsubjdepcasedetnmodpunctnsubjccompobjpunctamodnsubjconjobjpunctadvmodamodnsubjcopconjpunctroot★PROPN★X★ADPTheDETPigeonPROPNsaysVERB:PUNCTserpentsNOUNeatVERBeggsNOUN;PUNCTlittleADJgirlsNOUNeatVERBeggsNOUN;PUNCTsoADVlittleADJgirlsNOUNareAUXserpentsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1★★PROPNNumber=Sing6 saysnsubj
2★★XForeign=Yes1 ★dep
3★★ADP_5 Pigeoncase
4ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Pigeondet
5PigeonPigeonPROPNNumber=Sing1 ★nmod
6sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7::PUNCT_9 eatpunct
8serpentsserpentNOUNNumber=Plur9 eatnsubj
9eateatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 saysccomp
10eggseggNOUNNumber=Plur9 eatobj
11;;PUNCT_14 eatpunct
12littlelittleADJDegree=Pos13 girlsamod
13girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur14 eatnsubj
14eateatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 eatconj
15eggseggNOUNNumber=Plur14 eatobj
16;;PUNCT_21 serpentspunct
17sosoADV_21 serpentsadvmod
18littlelittleADJDegree=Pos19 girlsamod
19girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur21 serpentsnsubj
20arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 serpentscop
21serpentsserpentNOUNNumber=Plur6 saysconj
22..PUNCT_6 sayspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresent★ ★ the Pigeonvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2eatpresentserpentseggsvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
3eatpresentlittle girlseggsvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
4is apresentlittle girlsserpentstree rules

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: Which argument has the SAME mistake?

detnsubjdetamodobjpunctrootWhichDETargumentNOUNhasVERBtheDETSAMEADJmistakeNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhichwhichDETPronType=Int2 argumentdet
2argumentargumentNOUNNumber=Sing3 hasnsubj
3hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 mistakedet
5SAMEsameADJDegree=Pos6 mistakeamod
6mistakemistakeNOUNNumber=Sing3 hasobj
7??PUNCT_3 haspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentwhich argumentthe SAME mistakevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dogs can bark

nsubjauxrootDogsNOUNcanAUXbarkVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur3 barknsubj
2cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin3 barkaux
3barkbarkVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1barkcanDogsvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Cats have tails

nsubjobjrootCatsNOUNhaveVERBtailsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CatscatNOUNNumber=Plur2 havensubj
2havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3tailstailNOUNNumber=Plur2 haveobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentCatstailsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 3

Cats have tails; so dogs must too

nsubjobjpunctadvmodnsubjadvcladvmodrootCatsNOUNhaveVERBtailsNOUN;PUNCTsoADVdogsNOUNmustAUXtooADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CatscatNOUNNumber=Plur2 havensubj
2havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3tailstailNOUNNumber=Plur2 haveobj
4;;PUNCT_2 havepunct
5sosoADV_7 mustadvmod
6dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur7 mustnsubj
7mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin2 haveadvcl
8tootooADV_7 mustadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentCatstailsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cats have tails; dogs have tails; so dogs are cats

nsubjobjpunctnsubjconjobjpunctadvmodnsubjcopparataxisrootCatsNOUNhaveVERBtailsNOUN;PUNCTdogsNOUNhaveVERBtailsNOUN;PUNCTsoADVdogsNOUNareAUXcatsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CatscatNOUNNumber=Plur2 havensubj
2havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3tailstailNOUNNumber=Plur2 haveobj
4;;PUNCT_6 havepunct
5dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur6 havensubj
6havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 haveconj
7tailstailNOUNNumber=Plur6 haveobj
8;;PUNCT_2 havepunct
9sosoADV_12 catsadvmod
10dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur12 catsnsubj
11arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 catscop
12catscatNOUNNumber=Plur2 haveparataxis
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentCatstailsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2havepresentdogstailsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3is apresentdogscatstree 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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