Test 16 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…

Looking back: what did Alice do to grow to about two feet high before going to the March Hare's house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, do, grow, go · To what, where: house

This is test 16 · ★ 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 do	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grow	mark
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 do	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 feet	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 two	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 feet	nummod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	obl
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feet	amod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 high	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Hare	det
19	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Hare	compound
20	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 house	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Hare	case
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Alice not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past · do-support	Alice			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	grow	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		to two feet	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	gerund	Alice not said here	the March Hare's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nibbled the left-hand bit of the mushroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
3	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	compound
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nibbled	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mushroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mushroom	det
9	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	participle		the hand bit of the mushroom					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient

Option 2

Nibbled the left-hand bit of the mushroom, then the right-hand bit, which made her shrink

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
3	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	compound
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nibbled	obl:unmarked
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mushroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mushroom	det
9	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bit	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 bit	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bit	det
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hand	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bit	compound
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bit	acl:relcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nibbled	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	nibble	participle		the hand bit of the mushroom	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	the hand bit	her = she	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
3	shrink	infinitive			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Swallowed a bottle marked DRINK ME

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 DRINK	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swallowed	obj
4	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bottle	acl
5	DRINK	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ME	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 DRINK	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	swallow	participle	you not said here	a bottle	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
2	mark	participle		a bottle not said here	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	imperative	you not said here	ME	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

Option 4

Ate the right-hand bit of the mushroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	compound
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	obl:unmarked
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mushroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mushroom	det
9	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		the hand bit of the mushroom					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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