Test 15 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…
Looking back: «Twinkle, twinkle, little bat» comes out wrong, like poems earlier in the book. Which one did Alice get wrong for the Caterpillar?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, one · What happens: look back, come out, get · To what, where: Twinkle
This is test 15 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Looking back: «Twinkle, twinkle, little bat» comes out wrong, like poems earlier in the book.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 comes | csubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Twinkle | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Twinkle | punct |
| 5 | Twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 twinkle | punct |
| 7 | twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Twinkle | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bat | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bat | amod |
| 10 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Twinkle | appos |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 bat | punct |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 comes | advmod |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 comes | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 poems | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 poems | case |
| 17 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 comes | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 book | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 earlier | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Twinkle and twinkle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come out | present | Looking | early, out, wrong property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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: Which one did Alice get wrong for the Caterpillar?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Caterpillar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caterpillar | det |
| 9 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | which one | for the Caterpillar; wrong property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for caterpillar=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
«How doth»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 doth | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 doth | advmod |
| 3 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 doth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
«Twinkle»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Twinkle | punct |
| 2 | Twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Twinkle | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
«How doth the little crocodile»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 doth | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 doth | advmod |
| 3 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crocodile | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crocodile | amod |
| 6 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doth | obj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 doth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the little crocodile | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
«You are old, Father William»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 old | vocative |
| 7 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | flat |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | Father vocative; old property | tree rules |
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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