Test 14 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Cro…

Looking back: what did the Cat say just before it vanished in chapter VI?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cat · What happens: look back, say, vanish · To what, where: chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 15 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 vanished	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 vanished	advmod
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 vanished	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 vanished	nsubj
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 chapter	case
14	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl
15	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	14 chapter	flat
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 vanished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Cat not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	vanish	past	Cat	chapter	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

«You'll see me there, if you go to the croquet game»

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 go	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 game	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 game	det
13	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 game	compound
14	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	You	me		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			the croquet game			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to game=Initial_Location

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

«You'll see me there»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	You	me		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

Option 3

«I'll see you soon»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 see	advmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	I	you				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4

«You'll see me there, I'm sure, when the Queen's game begins at noon»

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sure	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	cop
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begins	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 begins	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queen	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 game	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Queen	case
16	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begins	nsubj
17	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 noon	case
19	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begins	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	You	me	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present	I				sure property	tree rules
3	begin in a quote	present	the Queen's game			noon		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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