Test 6 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party…
Alice says she would not be hungry at half-past one if Time jumped forward. What does the Hatter answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, half past one · What happens: say, not be, jump, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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 she would not be hungry at half-past one if Time jumped forward.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hungry | cop |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 one | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 11 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hungry | obl |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 jumped | mark |
| 14 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jumped | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 jumped | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | not is | would | Alice | at half past one; hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jump a condition, not said to happen | past | half past one not said here | time | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: What does the Hatter answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | compound |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
You could keep it at half-past one as long as you liked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 one | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 liked | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 liked | nsubj |
| 14 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | could | You | it | at half past one; long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at one=Location | |||
| 2 | like | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
You would be late for every class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 late | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 late | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 late | cop |
| 4 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 class | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 class | det |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 late | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | You | for every class; late property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 once | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
You could be as hungry as you liked, always
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hungry | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 liked | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 liked | nsubj |
| 8 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 hungry | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | You | always, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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