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Test 1 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig…

Freddie goes: "Alice dropped the baby 'cos it was too heavy." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freddie, Alice, baby, you · What happens: go, drop, be, put · To what, where: baby, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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: Freddie goes: "Alice dropped the baby 'cos it was too heavy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 dropped	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dropped	punct
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 heavy	punct
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 heavy	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heavy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heavy	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 heavy	advmod
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dropped	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Freddie						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drop in a quote	past	Alice	the baby					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	baby					heavy 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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Alice			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1

She put it down as it was crying

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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 crying	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 crying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crying	aux
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 put	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put down	past	She	it					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	it						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She dropped it because it grew too big to hold

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 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 grew	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dropped	advcl
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 big	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	She	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	grow	past	it					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She set it down because it had turned into a pig

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 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 set	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pig	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pig	det
11	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set down	past	She	it					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
2	turn	past · perfect	it					into a pig result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pig=Result

Option 4

She gave it back to the cook in the kitchen

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	past	She	it	the cook	the kitchen			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cook=Recipient

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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