Test 17 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party…

Looking back: how high was the little door in chapter I?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, be · To what, where: little door

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 14 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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	9 door	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Looking	advcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 door	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 door	amod
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 chapter	case
11	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	conj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 chapter	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 door	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Looking	the little door and chapter					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

About fifteen inches, which was not quite high enough for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 fifteen	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 high	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 high	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 high	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 high	advmod
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inches	conj
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 high	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	fifteen inches					for her = she; enough, high property	tree rules

Option 2

About twelve inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

About fifteen inches, though Alice found the door far too small to pass through

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 fifteen	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 found	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 small	advmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 small	advmod
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pass	mark
14	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 small	advcl
15	through	through	ADV	_	14 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	fifteen inches	the door				small property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
2	pass through	to-infinitive	fifteen inches not said here					through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

About fifteen inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 fifteen	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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