Test 13 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and t…

Looking back to chapter I: what else did Alice say about the earth while falling?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, I · What happens: look back, chapter, say, fall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	11 say	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	_	11 say	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obl
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 falling	mark
16	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 say	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Alice	about the earth	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	fall	gerund	Alice not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

That the centre was about four thousand miles down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 centre	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 miles	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 miles	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 thousand	advmod
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 miles	nummod
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 miles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that centre	thousand miles				down property	tree rules

Option 2

That the centre was about four thousand miles down, and nobody had ever been there before

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 centre	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 down	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 down	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 thousand	advmod
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 miles	nummod
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 down	obl:unmarked
9	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 there	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 there	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 there	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 down	parataxis
17	before	before	ADV	_	16 there	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that centre					thousand miles obl:unmarked; down property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	nobody				ever	before, there property	tree rules

Option 3

That the centre was about four thousand miles down, and the earth was hot and round

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 centre	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 down	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 down	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 thousand	advmod
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 miles	nummod
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 down	obl:unmarked
9	down	down	ADV	_	15 hot	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hot	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hot	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hot	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hot	cop
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 round	cc
17	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	that centre	thousand miles obl:unmarked; down property	tree rules
2	is	past	the earth	hot property	tree rules
3	be		the earth not said here		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That the sky was four thousand miles down and the earth spun like a top, very fast indeed

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sky	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sky	det
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 down	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 down	cop
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thousand	compound
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 miles	nummod
7	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 down	obl:unmarked
8	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fast	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fast	nsubj
12	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 earth	acl
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spun	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fast	punct
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 down	conj
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that sky					thousand miles obl:unmarked; down property	tree rules
2	spin	participle		the earth not said here				like a top	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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