Test 19 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…
★★★ Alice says it is «The fourth», and she is right; the watch is «two days wrong». Which days could the watch be showing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, it, watch, days · What happens: say, be, show · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 19 · ★ 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: ★★★ Alice says it is «The fourth», and she is right; the watch is «two days wrong».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Alice | case |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fourth | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fourth | cop |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 fourth | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fourth | det |
| 10 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 fourth | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 right | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 right | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 right | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrong | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 watch | det |
| 19 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrong | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 wrong | cop |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrong | punct |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 days | nummod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wrong | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrong | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ ★ Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | fourth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | ★ | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the watch | day | wrong 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.
Sentence 2: Which days could the watch be showing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 showing | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 showing | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 watch | det |
| 5 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showing | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 showing | aux |
| 7 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 showing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | could · progressive | which days | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The second or the sixth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 sixth | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sixth | det |
| 5 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 second | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The second, the sixth, or any day at all in the month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 sixth | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sixth | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sixth | det |
| 5 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 day | cc |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sixth | appos |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 month | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 month | det |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The first or the seventh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 seventh | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seventh | det |
| 5 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 first | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only the day after the fourth, which is the fifth of the month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 day | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 fourth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fourth | det |
| 6 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fifth | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fifth | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fifth | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fifth | det |
| 11 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fourth | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 month | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 month | det |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fifth | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fourth and the fifth | the fifth | month | tree rules |
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