Test 5 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig…

Grandad from Yorkshire: "Nay, a baby turnin' into a pig, that's daft as a brush." ("daft as a brush" = very silly.) Which clue came first that it was turning into a pig?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, clue · What happens: be, come, turn

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Grandad from Yorkshire: "Nay, a baby turnin' into a pig, that's daft as a brush."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Yorkshire	case
3	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 turnin	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 turnin	punct
6	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	10 turnin	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Nay	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 turnin	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turnin	compound
10	turnin	turnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	appos
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 turnin	punct
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 pig	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pig	det
14	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turnin	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 daft	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 daft	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 daft	cop
18	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turnin	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 brush	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 brush	det
21	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daft	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turnin	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 turnin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that					as a brush; daft 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: ("daft as a brush" = very silly.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 daft	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 daft	punct
3	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 brush	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 brush	det
6	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 daft	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 brush	punct
8	=	=	SYM	_	10 silly	punct
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 silly	advmod
10	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brush	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 daft	punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 daft	punct

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

Sentence 3: Which clue came first that it was turning into a pig?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 clue	det
2	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 turning	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turning	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turning	aux
8	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	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 turning	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	which clue					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past · progressive	clue					into a pig result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pig=Result

The options

Option 1

Its sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sneeze	nmod:poss
2	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze		Its = it						nom sneeze «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Its nose turned up and then its grunting, which Alice first thought was a sneeze

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nose	nmod:poss
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grunting	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 grunting	advmod
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grunting	nmod:poss
8	grunting	grunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sneeze	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sneeze	nsubj
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 thought	advmod
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 which	acl:relcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sneeze	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sneeze	det
16	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grunting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	Its nose			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Alice		first property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	nose's grunting and a sneeze	a sneeze		tree rules

Option 3

Its squealing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 squealing	nmod:poss
2	squealing	squealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its grunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grunting	nmod:poss
2	grunting	grunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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