Test 15 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Looking back: the flamingo's long, bending neck is like Alice's own neck in chapter V. Who called Alice a «Serpent!» then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, own neck · What happens: look back, bend, be, call · To what, where: long, neck, chapter, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	16 neck	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flamingo	det
5	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 flamingo	case
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bending	punct
9	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Looking	conj
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bending	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 neck	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	16 neck	case
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 neck	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Alice	case
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 neck	amod
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 chapter	case
18	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 neck	nmod
19	V.	V.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 chapter	appos
20	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 neck	acl:relcl
22	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 called	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Serpent	det
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 Serpent	punct
25	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 neck	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 neck	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 neck	advmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 neck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		the flamingo's long					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	bend	gerund		neck					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material
3	is	present	Looking			chapter	then	like Alice's own neck	tree rules
4	call	past	Alice's own neck		Alice				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice

The Pigeon, in chapter V, after she had been up in the tree

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pigeon	det
2	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 V	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 V	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 V	compound
6	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pigeon	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	15 tree	case
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tree	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 tree	cop
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 been	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pigeon	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	she				after the tree		tree rules

Option 2

The Mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pigeon	det
2	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Duchess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	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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