Test 12 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…
Looking back: which creature first told Alice where the Hatter and the March Hare live?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, Hatter · What happens: look back, tell, live · To what, where: Alice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 13 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 told | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 4 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 creature | det |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 told | advmod |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 live | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hatter | det |
| 11 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 live | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Hare | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hare | det |
| 14 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hare | compound |
| 15 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hatter | conj |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | which creature not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | which creature | Alice | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | live | infinitive | the Hatter and the March Hare | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Mock Turtle, sighing at the sea shore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turtle | det |
| 2 | Mock | Mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Turtle | compound |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighing | punct |
| 5 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Turtle | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shore | compound |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sighing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | gerund | the Mock Turtle not said here | the sea shore | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The Cheshire Cat, waving one paw and then the other, grinning from the branch of a tree
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cheshire | Cheshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | compound |
| 3 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 waving | punct |
| 5 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Cat | acl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 paw | nummod |
| 7 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waving | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 other | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 other | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paw | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grinning | punct |
| 13 | grinning | grin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 waving | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 branch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branch | det |
| 16 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grinning | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 branch | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | the Cheshire Cat not said here | one paw | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grin | gerund | the Cheshire Cat not said here | the branch of a tree | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Cheshire Cat, waving one paw and then the other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cheshire | Cheshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | compound |
| 3 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 waving | punct |
| 5 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Cat | acl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 paw | nummod |
| 7 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waving | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 other | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 other | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Cat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | the Cheshire Cat not said here | one paw | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient |
Option 4
The Duchess, shaking her baby in the kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duchess | det |
| 2 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaking | punct |
| 4 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 baby | nmod:poss |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kitchen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kitchen | det |
| 9 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | the Duchess | Duchess's baby | the kitchen | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in kitchen=Trajectory |
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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