Test 8 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

Why does Alice make herself nine inches before visiting the little house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: make, visit · To what, where: Alice, little house

This is test 8 · ★★ 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=Int	4 make	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 make	obj
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 inches	nummod
7	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 visiting	mark
9	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 make	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visiting	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	Alice	Alice					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary inch=Product
2	visit	gerund	Alice not said here	the little house					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

So she won't frighten whoever lives there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 frighten	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frighten	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 frighten	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 frighten	advmod
5	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lives	nsubj
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frighten	ccomp
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not frighten	future	she						tree rules
2	live	present	whoever			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Because the Pigeon is worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 worried	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pigeon	det
3	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 worried	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worried	cop
5	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Pigeon					worried property	tree rules

Option 3

To hide from snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 snakes	case
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive						from snakes	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from snake=Beneficiary

Option 4

To look smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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