Test 17 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Cro…
★★★ The three soldiers stay behind to execute the gardeners. If the procession began with ten soldiers, how many soldiers walk on with it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, procession, many soldiers · What happens: stay, execute, begin, walk on · To what, where: gardeners
This is test 17 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ The three soldiers stay behind to execute the gardeners.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | SCONJ | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldiers | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 soldiers | nummod |
| 6 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 execute | mark |
| 10 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stay | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gardeners | det |
| 12 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 execute | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | ★ | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | execute | to-infinitive | ★ not said here | the gardeners | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient |
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 the procession began with ten soldiers, how many soldiers walk on with it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 began | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 procession | det |
| 3 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 soldiers | case |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 soldiers | nummod |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walk | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soldiers | amod |
| 11 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walk | nsubj |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 walk | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walk | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the procession | with ten soldiers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with soldier=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | walk on | present | many soldiers | with procession | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
0
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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