Test 7 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and t…

Why does Alice talk about the earth turning on its axis?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, earth · What happens: talk, turn · To what, where: axis

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 talk	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 talk	nsubj
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
8	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 earth	acl
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 turning	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present · do-support	Alice					about the earth	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about earth=Topic
2	turn	gerund	the earth not said here			earth's axis			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on axis=Trajectory

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

She is glad of a chance to show off her knowledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 glad	cop
3	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chance	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chance	det
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glad	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glad	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knowledge	nmod:poss
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					of a chance; glad property	tree rules
2	show off	to-infinitive	She not said here	her knowledge					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knowledge=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She wants to make the cook cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cross	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cross	compound
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the cook cross					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cross=Product

Option 3

She is glad of a chance to show off her knowledge, since the Duchess is so cross and interested in the sky

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 glad	cop
3	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chance	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chance	det
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glad	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glad	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knowledge	nmod:poss
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cross	punct
13	since	since	SCONJ	_	18 cross	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Duchess	det
15	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cross	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cross	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 cross	advmod
18	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glad	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 interested	cc
20	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cross	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sky	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 interested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	She			of a chance; glad property	tree rules
2	show off	to-infinitive	She not said here	her knowledge			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knowledge=Recipient
3	is	present	the Duchess			cross property	tree rules
4	be		the Duchess not said here		the sky		tree rules

Option 4

She wants to frighten the Duchess with facts about the earth and the cook's pepper

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 frighten	mark
4	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duchess	det
6	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 frighten	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frighten	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 facts	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pepper	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cook	det
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pepper	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 cook	case
16	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 earth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	frighten not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the Duchess				with facts about the earth and the cook's pepper	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duchess=Experiencer

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