Test 20 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party…

★★★ «It's very easy to take more than nothing.» If Alice had nothing and then took some tea, which is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, tea · What happens: be, take, have · To what, where: more, nothing, tea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ «It's very easy to take more than nothing.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 easy	punct
5	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 easy	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 easy	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 easy	advmod
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ★	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easy	csubj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 take	obj
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 nothing	case
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 more	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 easy	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						easy property	tree rules
2	take in a quote	to-infinitive		more					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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: If Alice had nothing and then took some tea, which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 took	advmod
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 tea	det
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 true	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 true	cop
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tea	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Alice	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	take	past	Alice not said here	some tea	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme
3	is	present	some tea			true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

She took more than nothing but could not take less than nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 took	obj
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 more	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 take	advmod
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 take	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 nothing	case
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	She	more					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	not take	could	She not said here	less				than nothing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She took more than nothing, which is easy, and so she could take less than nothing too, as the Hatter says

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 took	obj
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 more	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 easy	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 easy	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 easy	cop
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nothing	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
16	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 nothing	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 less	fixed
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 take	obj
19	too	too	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 says	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Hatter	det
23	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	She	more		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	is	present			easy property	tree rules
3	take	could	she	nothing		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	the Hatter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Taking more than nothing is impossible for her now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 impossible	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 nothing	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 more	fixed
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Taking	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 impossible	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 impossible	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		nothing					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	is	present	Taking				now	for her = she; impossible property	tree rules

Option 4

She took less tea than nothing, which is easy to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 tea	amod
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 easy	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 easy	cop
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	amod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	She	less tea	than nothing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme
2	is	present			easy property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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