Test 8 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party…

Why can't you draw «a muchness»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not draw · To what, where: muchness

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 draw	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 draw	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 draw	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 draw	nsubj
5	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 muchness	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 muchness	det
8	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 draw	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 muchness	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 draw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not draw	can	you	a muchness					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muchness=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«Much of a muchness» is just a saying for nearly the same, not a thing you can see

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Much	punct
2	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saying	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 muchness	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 muchness	det
5	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Much	nmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Much	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 saying	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 saying	det
10	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 same	case
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 same	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saying	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 thing	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thing	det
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	appos
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Much of a muchness	a saying				for the same	tree rules
2	see	can	you	a thing not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 2

It is not a real thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 thing	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	a real thing					tree rules

Option 3

It is a word that means nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 word	acl:relcl
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 means	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a word					tree rules
2	mean	present	a word	nothing		all			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 4

Because a muchness is a kind of soup that can not be drawn at all, like a picture

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 muchness	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 muchness	det
3	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 soup	case
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 drawn	nsubj:pass
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drawn	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 drawn	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 drawn	aux:pass
13	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 kind	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 drawn	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 picture	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 picture	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 picture	det
19	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drawn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a muchness	a kind				of soup	tree rules
2	not draw	can · passive		a kind		all			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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