Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

Why does the Pigeon say it does not matter whether Alice is a girl or a serpent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pigeon, it, Alice · What happens: do, say, not matter, be · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pigeon	det
4	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 matter	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 matter	advmod
9	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 girl	mark
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 girl	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 girl	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 matter	advcl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 serpent	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 serpent	det
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 girl	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	the Pigeon not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Pigeon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not matter	present · do-support	it		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	present	Alice	a girl or a serpent	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Either way, it thinks she is after its eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinks	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thinks	nsubj
5	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eggs	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eggs	cop
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eggs	nmod:poss
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	way	either way					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she				after way's eggs		tree rules

Option 2

Either way, a girl or a serpent would surely try to climb the tree and steal all of the eggs

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 serpent	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 serpent	det
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	conj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
10	surely	surely	ADV	_	11 try	advmod
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 climb	mark
13	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climb	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 steal	cc
17	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 try	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 steal	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 eggs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eggs	det
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	would	a girl or a serpent	either way	surely property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl or a serpent not said here	the tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	steal	present	a girl or a serpent not said here	all		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme

Option 3

She will never grow up to be a bird

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 grow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grow	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	9 bird	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 bird	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow up	future	She						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	She not said here	a bird					tree rules

Option 4

Snakes and girls both have long necks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 girls	cc
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snakes	conj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 necks	amod
7	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Snakes and girls	long necks				both property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient

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