Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Looking back: what did Alice think was «the most curious thing I ever saw in my life» in chapter VI?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, Looking · What happens: look back, think, be, see · To what, where: curious thing, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 thing	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 think	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	cop
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 curious	advmod
12	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 saw	advmod
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 life	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 chapter	case
22	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
23	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	22 chapter	flat
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past · do-support	Alice					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	Looking	the curious thing				tree rules
4	see in a quote	past	Alice	the curious thing not said here	my life	ever	in chapter	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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

A smile without a face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 smile	det
2	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 face	det
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smile	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A grin without a cat, floating in the air above the croquet ground in the middle of the afternoon

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grin	det
2	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	nsubj
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grin	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 floating	punct
7	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 middle	csubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floating	obl
11	above	above	ADP	_	14 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
13	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ground	compound
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 air	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 afternoon	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 afternoon	det
20	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund				the air above the croquet ground			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A grin without a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grin	det
2	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grin	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A grin without a cat, which was the most curious thing she had ever seen in her entire life before

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grin	det
2	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grin	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 curious	advmod
11	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grin	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 seen	advmod
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 thing	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 life	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
19	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 life	amod
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
21	before	before	ADV	_	16 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a grin without a cat and the curious thing	the curious thing					tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	cat	the curious thing not said here		cat's entire life	ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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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