Test 8 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig…

Why does Alice think the March Hare might be less mad now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, March Hare · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hare	det
6	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hare	compound
7	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mad	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 mad	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 mad	cop
10	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 mad	advmod
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 think	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	Alice				now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	might	the March Hare					less, mad 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because the Hatter is out of tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 Hatter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hatter	det
3	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tea	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tea	cop
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 tea	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 tea	case
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				tea		because the Hatter	tree rules

Option 2

Because it is May, so the March Hare has been moved to a different time of year and place

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 May	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 May	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 May	cop
4	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moved	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	12 moved	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hare	det
8	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hare	compound
9	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 moved	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 moved	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 moved	aux:pass
12	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 May	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moved	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 year	case
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 place	cc
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	May					tree rules
2	move	present · perfect · passive	May not said here	the March Hare			time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result

Option 3

Because it has eaten the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · passive		it					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Because it is May, not March

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 May	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 May	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 May	cop
4	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 March	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 March	advmod
7	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 May	conj

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

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