Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and t…

Looking back to chapter V: what did Alice say about all the creatures, which she repeats in other words here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, creatures · What happens: look back, say, repeat · To what, where: chapter, other words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chapter	mark
4	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	V	v	X	_	4 chapter	goeswith
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 say	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 creatures	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 creatures	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 creatures	det
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 repeats	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 repeats	nsubj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 repeats	nsubj
18	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 creatures	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 words	case
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 repeats	obl
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 repeats	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		chapter			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Alice			about all creatures	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	repeat	present	all creatures		other words; here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

That the creatures are touchy and hard to talk to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 touchy	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creatures	det
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touchy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 touchy	cop
5	touchy	touchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hard	cc
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 touchy	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	That	touchy property	tree rules
2	be		That not said here		tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive	That not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That they are rude to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 rude	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					to everyone; rude property	tree rules

Option 3

That they are all sensible and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sensible	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sensible	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sensible	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 sensible	advmod
5	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sensible	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					all, sensible property	tree rules
2	be		That not said here						tree rules

Option 4

That the creatures are touchy and hard to talk to, and nobody likes living with them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 touchy	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creatures	det
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touchy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 touchy	cop
5	touchy	touchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hard	cc
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 touchy	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 talk	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 likes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 likes	cc
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 likes	nsubj
14	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 touchy	conj
15	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 likes	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	That	touchy property	tree rules
2	be		That not said here		tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive	That not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	present	nobody		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	live not said to happen	gerund	nobody not said here	with creatures = creature	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location

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