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Test 16 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and t…

★★★ Read carefully: the Footman says knocking might make sense "if you were inside". Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★, Footman, you · What happens: read, say, knock, make, be · To what, where: sense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Read carefully: the Footman says knocking might make sense "if you were inside".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Read	nsubj
4	Read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 Read	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Footman	det
8	Footman	Footman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Read	advcl
10	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 make	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
13	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 inside	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 inside	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 inside	cop
18	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 make	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 inside	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	infinitive	★ ★					carefully property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Footman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	knock	gerund							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	make	might		sense					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you					inside property	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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Then the door would be a wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 wall	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wall	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wall	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wall	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	the door	a wall			then		tree rules

Option 2

Then the door would be locked tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 locked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 locked	aux:pass
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	tight	tight	ADV	_	6 locked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	would · passive		the door			then	tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Then the door would be between them, and he could let her out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 them	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 them	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 them	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 them	cop
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 them	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the door				then	between them = they	tree rules
2	let out	could	he	her = she					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

Then he could sneeze at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sneeze	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sneeze	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sneeze	aux
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sneeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	could	he				then	at her = she	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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