Test 3 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

Why is the Pigeon's thinking wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thinking, Pigeon · What happens: be, think

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pigeon	det
4	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Pigeon	case
6	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thinking	amod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Pigeon's thinking					why property	tree rules
2	think		the Pigeon						nom thinking «cognition transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Being a girl is different from being a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 girl	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 different	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 different	cop
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 bird	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bird	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 different	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a girl		tree rules
2	is	present	a girl		different property	tree rules
3	is	gerund			from a bird	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two things that both eat eggs are not the same thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 things	nummod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thing	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 eat	obj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 things	acl:relcl
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 thing	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	both	Two things					tree rules
2	not is a	present	Two things	the same thing					tree rules

Option 3

Snakes and girls are both very long and thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 girls	cc
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snakes	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
5	both	both	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thin	cc
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Snakes and girls					both, long property	tree rules
2	be		Snakes and girls not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Because it is only the Pigeon who is wrong, and it has never met a girl before in its whole life

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 Pigeon	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Pigeon	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Pigeon	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Pigeon	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pigeon	det
6	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wrong	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wrong	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 met	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 met	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 met	advmod
15	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 wrong	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obj
18	before	before	ADV	_	15 met	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 life	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the Pigeon			tree rules
2	is	present	the Pigeon			wrong property	tree rules
3	not meet	present · perfect	Pigeon	a girl	Pigeon's whole life	before property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent

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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