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Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and t…

★★★ Alice says the earth turns on its axis in "Twenty-four hours, I think; or is it twelve?" Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, earth · What happens: say, turn, think, be · To what, where: axis, twelve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Alice says the earth turns on its axis in "Twenty-four hours, I think; or is it twelve?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Alice	case
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turns	nsubj
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 axis	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 axis	nmod:poss
11	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turns	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 hours	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 hours	punct
14	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 four	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Twenty	punct
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hours	nummod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turns	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turns	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 twelve	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 twelve	cc
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 twelve	cop
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 twelve	nsubj
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 says	parataxis
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	★ ★ Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn	present	the earth			earth's axis	hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on axis=Trajectory
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	★ ★ Alice = ★						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	earth	twelve					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: Which is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Twenty-four hours, I think, exactly as the clock says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hours	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	13 says	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 says	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clock	det
12	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 think	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				hour		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the clock					exactly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Twelve hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-four hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Twelve hours, or twenty-four hours if it's a Tuesday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hours	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 hours	cc
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 four	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hours	nummod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hours	acl:relcl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 Tuesday	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Tuesday	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Tuesday	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Tuesday	det
13	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a Tuesday					tree rules

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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