Test 13 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Looking back: where did Alice first meet the Cheshire Cat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, meet · To what, where: Cheshire Cat

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	8 meet	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 meet	aux
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 meet	advmod
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cat	det
10	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Cat	compound
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meet	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 meet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	meet	past · do-support	Looking	the Cheshire Cat				first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-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.

The options

Option 1

In the Duchess's kitchen, grinning on the hearth, beside the cook and the baby and the pepper pot

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kitchen	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Duchess	case
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grinning	punct
7	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kitchen	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hearth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hearth	det
10	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grinning	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cook	punct
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 cook	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cook	det
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hearth	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 baby	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hearth	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pot	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pot	det
20	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pot	compound
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hearth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund	the Duchess's kitchen not said here			the hearth and the cook and the baby and the pepper pot			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

In the Duchess's kitchen, grinning on the hearth, while the pepper was flying everywhere in the room

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kitchen	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Duchess	case
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grinning	punct
7	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kitchen	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hearth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hearth	det
10	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grinning	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flying	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 flying	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pepper	det
14	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flying	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flying	aux
16	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 grinning	conj
17	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 flying	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund	the Duchess's kitchen not said here			the hearth			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly	past · progressive	the pepper			the room		everywhere property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

On the croquet ground, asleep in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 ground	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
3	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ground	compound
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ground	amod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the Duchess's kitchen, grinning on the hearth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kitchen	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Duchess	case
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grinning	punct
7	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kitchen	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hearth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hearth	det
10	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grinning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund	the Duchess's kitchen not said here			the hearth			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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