Test 11 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and t…
Looking back to chapter I: Alice once played croquet against herself and cheated. What game does the Queen's letter invite the Duchess to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, I, game, Queen · What happens: look back, chapter, play, cheat, do, invite · To what, where: croquet, letter invite
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 11 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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
Sentence 1: Looking back to chapter I: Alice once played croquet against herself and cheated.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 played | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 chapter | mark |
| 4 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 chapter | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 played | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 played | nsubj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 played | advmod |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 played | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 played | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cheated | cc |
| 14 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 played | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 played | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Alice not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | chapter | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | play | past | Alice | croquet | against Alice; once property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme | |||
| 4 | cheat | past | Alice not said here | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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.
Sentence 2: What game does the Queen's letter invite the Duchess to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 invite | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Queen | case |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invite | compound |
| 8 | invite | invite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duchess | det |
| 10 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 invite | appos |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 invite | fixed |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | what game | the Queen's letter invite | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invite=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | invite | the Queen | nom invite «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Croquet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Chess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Polo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polo | polo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tennis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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