Test 19 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party…
★★★ The sisters draw things beginning with M. Which list fits the rule without a mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, beginning · What happens: draw, begin, fit · To what, where: things, list, rule
This is test 19 · ★ 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 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 draw | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 sisters | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 draw | obj |
| 8 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 fits | csubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 M. | case |
| 10 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | obl |
| 11 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 list | det |
| 12 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | obj |
| 13 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 draw | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rule | det |
| 15 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fits | obj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 mistake | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mistake | det |
| 18 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fits | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 draw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | ★ ★ the sisters | things | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | gerund | which list | with M. | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent list=Eventuality with m.=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | fit | present | beginning | the rule | without a mistake | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Mouse-traps, the moon, memory, muchness, mice and the mad March Hare
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mouse | punct |
| 3 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 memory | punct |
| 8 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 muchness | punct |
| 10 | muchness | muchness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 memory | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mice | punct |
| 12 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 traps | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Hare | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hare | det |
| 15 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hare | amod |
| 16 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hare | compound |
| 17 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Muchness, the moon, the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muchness | muchness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moon | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Muchness | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sun | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Muchness | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Mouse-traps, the moon, treacle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mouse | punct |
| 3 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 treacle | punct |
| 8 | treacle | treacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Mouse-traps, the moon, memory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mouse | punct |
| 3 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 memory | punct |
| 8 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traps | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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