Test 3 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party…

What would happen, by the tea-party's rules, if they used up all the clean places?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rules, tea party · What happens: happen, use up, rule · To what, where: clean places

This is test 3 · ★ 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	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rules	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	11 rules	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 party	det
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 party	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 tea	punct
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rules	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 party	case
11	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 used	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 used	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 used	compound:prt
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 places	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 places	det
19	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 places	amod
20	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			by the tea party's rules	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by rule=Location
2	use up a condition, not said to happen	past	rules = rule	all clean places		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
3	rule		the tea party			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

The book doesn't say: the March Hare changes the subject when Alice asks

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 changes	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hare	det
8	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hare	compound
9	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 changes	nsubj
10	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 subject	det
12	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 changes	obj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 asks	advmod
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 asks	nsubj
15	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 changes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the book		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	change	present	the March Hare	the subject	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	present	Alice		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They would just wash the cups again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wash	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 wash	advmod
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cups	det
6	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wash	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 wash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	would	They	the cups			again		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

Option 3

The Hatter would have to wash up all the cups by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hatter	det
2	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wash	mark
6	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 wash	compound:prt
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cups	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cups	det
10	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wash	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 hand	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the Hatter						tree rules
2	wash up	to-infinitive	the Hatter not said here	all cups				by hand	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

Option 4

They would be out of cups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cups	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cups	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cups	cop
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 cups	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cups	case
6	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They			cups			tree rules

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