Test 5 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…

What would happen at a school if a child were friends with Time, as the Hatter explains it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, Hatter · What happens: happen, be, explain · To what, where: school, friends, child

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 school	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 friends	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friends	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 friends	cop
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 Time	case
13	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 explains	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 explains	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hatter	det
17	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 explains	nsubj
18	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 explains	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	would			a school	time	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at school=Location
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	a child	friends			tree rules
3	explain speech: assert	present	the Hatter	child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 clock would jump to dinner-time at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	aux
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dinner	punct
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	would	the clock				time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Time could whizz the clock from lessons to dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whizz	obl:unmarked
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 whizz	aux
3	whizz	whizz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clock	det
5	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whizz	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 lessons	case
7	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whizz	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whizz	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whizz	could		the clock		lessons	time	to dinner	tree rules

Option 3

Lessons would last all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 last	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 last	aux
3	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	Lessons				day	long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Time could whizz the clock from lessons to dinner, and the school would close for ever

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whizz	obl:unmarked
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 whizz	aux
3	whizz	whizz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clock	det
5	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whizz	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 lessons	case
7	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whizz	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whizz	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 close	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 school	det
13	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 close	aux
15	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 whizz	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 ever	case
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whizz	could		the clock		lessons	time	to dinner	tree rules
2	close	would	the school						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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