Test 15 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig…
★★★ Count the Cat's vanishings in this part: after "You'll see me there", after "I thought it would", and the slow one at the end. How many times did it vanish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, You, I, Cat, part · What happens: count, see, think, vanish · To what, where: vanishings, part, me
This is test 15 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Count the Cat's vanishings in this part: after "You'll see me there", after "I thought it would", and the slow one at the end.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Count | punct |
| 4 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cat | det |
| 6 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vanishings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Cat | case |
| 8 | vanishings | vanishing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Count | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Count | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 see | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 25 thought | mark |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 would | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 would | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 one | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 one | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 one | det |
| 32 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 one | amod |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | parataxis |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 end | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 end | det |
| 36 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 one | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | infinitive | ★ | the Cat's vanishings | this part | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanishing=Theme | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | You | me | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | vanish | the Cat | nom vanishing «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: How many times did it vanish?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vanish | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vanish | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 vanish | nsubj |
| 6 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 vanish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · do-support | part | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Five times, counting the grin twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 times | punct |
| 4 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grin | det |
| 6 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counting | obj |
| 7 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 counting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | the grin | time | twice property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grin=Theme |
Option 2
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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