Test 13 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…

Looking back: in chapter VI Alice went to the March Hare's thinking «as this is May» he would be what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, this · What happens: look back, go, think, be · To what, where: May · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	8 went	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	SCONJ	_	14 thinking	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Hare	det
11	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hare	compound
12	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thinking	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Hare	case
14	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 May	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 May	mark
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 May	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 May	cop
19	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thinking	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 May	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 what	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 what	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 what	cop
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 thinking	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Alice not said here		in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	go	past	Alice			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund	Alice not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	this	May		tree rules
5	is a	would	Alice			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 · ✓ the right answer

Not quite so mad as he was in March

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mad	advmod
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 March	case
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 March	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 March	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 March	case
9	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					as March	tree rules

Option 2

Just as mad as he always was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 mad	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 mad	advmod
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 was	advmod
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	he					always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Not quite so mad as he was in March, but still quite mad as a hatter in the afternoon

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mad	advmod
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 March	case
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 March	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 March	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 March	case
9	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mad	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 mad	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 mad	advmod
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 mad	advmod
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mad	appos
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 hatter	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hatter	det
17	hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mad	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 afternoon	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 afternoon	det
20	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hatter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					as March	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Less mad, and more like a rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 mad	advmod
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 more	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 more	cc
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 mad	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 rabbit	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rabbit	det
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mad	obl

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

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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