Test 20 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…

★★★ Careful: who was singing when the Hatter quarrelled with Time, and who quarrelled?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hatter · What happens: sing, quarrell

This is test 20 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 singing	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 singing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 singing	aux
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Careful	advcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 quarrelled	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 quarrelled	nsubj
12	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 singing	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Time	case
14	Time	Time	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 quarrelled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quarrelled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 quarrelled	cc
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 quarrelled	nsubj
18	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Careful	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	quarrell	past	the Hatter	with Time	tree rules
3	quarrell	past			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

Time sang, and the Hatter quarrelled with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quarrelled	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quarrelled	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hatter	det
6	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 quarrelled	nsubj
7	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quarrelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Time						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	quarrell	past	the Hatter					with him = he	tree rules

Option 2

The Dormouse sang, and Alice quarrelled with Time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dormouse	det
2	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quarrelled	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quarrelled	cc
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 quarrelled	nsubj
7	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 Time	case
9	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quarrelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the Dormouse						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	quarrell	past	Alice				time		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Hatter sang, and the Hatter and Time quarrelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hatter	det
2	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quarrelled	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 quarrelled	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hatter	det
7	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quarrelled	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Time	cc
9	Time	Time	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hatter	conj
10	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the Hatter						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	quarrell	past	the Hatter and Time						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Hatter sang, and the Hatter and Time quarrelled at the Queen's concert last March

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hatter	det
2	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quarrelled	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 quarrelled	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hatter	det
7	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quarrelled	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Time	cc
9	Time	Time	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hatter	conj
10	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 concert	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 concert	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Queen	case
15	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quarrelled	obl
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 March	amod
17	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quarrelled	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the Hatter						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	quarrell	past	the Hatter and Time			the Queen's concert	march		tree rules

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