Test 1 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Jake: «Alice was bostin' at croquet, won easy.» (bostin' = great, Black Country) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, Jake, bostin · What happens: be, win, put · To what, where: croquet

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» 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: Jake: «Alice was bostin' at croquet, won easy.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 won	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 bostin	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 bostin	punct
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bostin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bostin	cop
6	bostin	bostin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Jake	amod
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 bostin	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 croquet	case
9	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bostin	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jake	punct
11	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 won	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 won	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Alice			croquet		bostin property	tree rules
2	win in a quote	past	Jake					easy property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: (bostin' = great, Black Country) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 bostin	punct
2	bostin	bostin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Put	nsubj
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 bostin	punct
4	=	=	SYM	_	5 great	punct
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bostin	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Country	punct
7	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Country	compound
8	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Put	nsubj
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 Country	punct
10	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Put	obj
12	right	right	ADV	_	10 Put	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	infinitive	bostin	croquet				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1

She thought it was easy and won every round at once

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 easy	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	cop
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 won	cc
7	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 round	det
9	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 won	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			easy property	tree rules
3	win	past	She not said here	every round		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent round=Theme at once=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She found it «a very difficult game indeed» and never really got to play

The tree, 14 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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 difficult	advmod
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 game	amod
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	parataxis
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 game	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 game	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 got	advmod
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 got	advmod
14	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 play	mark
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	past	She	it	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
2	not get	participle	She not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	play	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She found it hard and quit early

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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 found	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 quit	cc
6	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 quit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	She	it				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	quit	infinitive	She not said here					early property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She won easily

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	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	easily	easily	ADV	_	2 won	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	She					easily property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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