Test 6 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party…

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice keeps her promise not to interrupt the Dormouse again.»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: this, Alice, promise · What happens: be, keep, not interrupt, promise · To what, where: promise, Dormouse

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Is this TRUE or FALSE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 TRUE	nsubj
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 FALSE	cc
5	FALSE	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 TRUE	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					true property	tree rules
2	be		this not said here						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.

Sentence 2: «Alice keeps her promise not to interrupt the Dormouse again.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 promise	nmod:poss
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 interrupt	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 interrupt	mark
8	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keeps	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Dormouse	det
10	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 interrupt	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	8 interrupt	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	Alice	Alice's promise		tree rules
2	not interrupt in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice's promise not said here	the Dormouse	again	tree rules
3	promise in a quote		Alice			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

True: she waits until the Dormouse is finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waits	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 waits	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waits	nsubj
4	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 finished	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dormouse	det
7	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 finished	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 finished	aux:pass
9	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 waits	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	finish	present · passive		the Dormouse					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

False: she asks «What did they draw?» at once, «quite forgetting her promise»

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asks	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 draw	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 draw	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 draw	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 draw	nsubj
9	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 draw	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 draw	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 draw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forgetting	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 forgetting	punct
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 forgetting	advmod
17	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 draw	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 promise	nmod:poss
19	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forgetting	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	she		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	draw in a quote	past · do-support	they		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	forget in a quote	gerund	they not said here	her promise	tree rules
4	promise in a quote		her = she		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

True: she keeps her promise and does not interrupt the Dormouse at all again, since she is very polite

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 promise	nmod:poss
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 interrupt	cc
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 interrupt	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 interrupt	advmod
10	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keeps	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dormouse	det
12	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 interrupt	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 interrupt	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	10 interrupt	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 polite	punct
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 polite	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 polite	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 polite	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 polite	advmod
21	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	she	her promise				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	not interrupt	present · do-support	she not said here	the Dormouse	all	again		tree rules
3	is	present	she				polite property	tree rules
4	promise		her = she					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

False: she asks «Why?» at once and then promises again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 promises	csubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 False	parataxis
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 asks	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 asks	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 then	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 once	conj
13	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 promises	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	she						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	promise speech: promise	present					again		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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