Test 6 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

True or false: Alice is completely sure she is a little girl.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: be · To what, where: little girl

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	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	_	8 sure	punct
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sure	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sure	cop
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 sure	advmod
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 girl	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 girl	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sure	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Alice					completely, sure property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Alice	a little girl					tree 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

False: she says it "rather doubtfully", after so many changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 doubtfully	punct
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 doubtfully	advmod
8	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	_	4 says	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 doubtfully	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 changes	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 changes	case
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 changes	amod
14	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

True: she says it firmly, with no doubt at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 doubt	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 doubt	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 doubt	det
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 doubt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she	it				firmly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

True: she says it boldly, as she has never once doubted her own size or her name after all those changes

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 says	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 has	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 doubted	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 doubted	advmod
13	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 has	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 size	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 size	amod
16	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doubted	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 name	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 name	nmod:poss
19	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 size	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 changes	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 changes	det:predet
22	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 changes	det
23	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 doubted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she	it		boldly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	have	present	she				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not doubt	past	she not said here	her own size or her name	after all changes	once property	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Theme
4	name		her = she				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

True: she says it firmly and clearly, without any hesitation, because she knows exactly who she is

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clearly	cc
8	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	6 firmly	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hesitation	punct
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 hesitation	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 hesitation	det
12	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knows	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 knows	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knows	nsubj
16	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	18 who	advmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 knows	ccomp
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 who	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she	it	firmly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	know	present	she			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	she		exactly property	tree rules

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