Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

What would have happened if Alice had eaten only the left-hand bit after that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: happen, eat · To what, where: hand bit

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	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 eaten	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	14 bit	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bit	det
11	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hand	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bit	compound
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obl:unmarked
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 eaten	obl
17	?	?	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	eat a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Alice	the hand bit			after that		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Her head would have hit the clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hit	aux
5	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clouds	det
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	would · perfect · passive		Her head					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient cloud=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her neck would have grown even longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 neck	nmod:poss
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grown	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 grown	aux
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would · perfect · passive		Her neck				long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She would have shrunk very small

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	4 shrunk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shrunk	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shrunk	aux
4	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shrunk	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	would · perfect	She					small property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Her feet would grow very long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Her feet					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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