Test 5 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Cro…

Why does Alice dare to say «Nonsense!» to the Queen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: dare, say · To what, where: Nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dare	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dare	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dare	nsubj
4	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dare	xcomp
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 Nonsense	punct
8	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Queen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dare	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	present · do-support	Alice					to the Queen	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Nonsense					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nonsense=Topic

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

She is angry now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 angry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She				now	angry property	tree rules

Option 2

She is brave today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She				today	brave property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She has realised they're only a pack of cards and she needn't be afraid

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 realised	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 realised	aux
3	realised	realise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pack	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pack	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 pack	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pack	det
8	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 realised	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cards	case
10	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pack	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 afraid	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 afraid	nsubj
13	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 afraid	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 afraid	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 afraid	cop
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 realised	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	realise	present · perfect	She			tree rules
2	is a	present	they	a pack	of cards	tree rules
3	not is	present	she		afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

She has decided the King will protect her from the Queen's anger here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decided	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decided	aux
3	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 protect	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 protect	aux
7	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 decided	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 protect	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 anger	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 anger	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Queen	case
13	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protect	obl
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 protect	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	present · perfect	She				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	protect	future	the King	her = she	here	from the Queen's anger	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from anger=Theme
3	anger		the Queen				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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