Test 19 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

★★★ Careful reading: when Alice gets her flamingo back, why does she think it «doesn't matter much» that the hedgehogs are gone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, hedgehogs · What happens: get back, think, not matter, be · To what, where: flamingo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 reading	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reading	amod
5	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gets	advmod
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ★	parataxis
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 flamingo	nmod:poss
11	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 think	advmod
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 think	aux
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gets	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 think	obj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 matter	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 matter	advmod
22	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 think	parataxis
23	much	much	ADV	_	22 matter	advmod
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 gone	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hedgehogs	det
27	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gone	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	cop
29	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 matter	advcl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get back	present	Alice	Alice's flamingo		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flamingo=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	present · do-support	Alice	flamingo		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	not matter in a quote	present · do-support				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	the hedgehogs		go property	tree rules

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 right answer

All the arches are gone from this side of the ground anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 arches	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arches	det
3	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all arches			this side of the ground		anyway, go property	tree rules

Option 2

The soldiers have all gone off to fetch the Duchess from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 gone	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fetch	mark
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Duchess	det
10	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	present · perfect	the soldiers					all property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here	the Duchess		the kitchen			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent duchess=Theme from kitchen=Source

Option 3

Her flamingo is now back in her arms again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 flamingo	nmod:poss
2	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 back	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 back	advmod
5	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 back	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 back	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her flamingo			her arms	now; again	back property	tree rules

Option 4

The hedgehogs were never really useful for croquet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hedgehogs	det
2	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 useful	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 useful	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 useful	advmod
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 croquet	case
8	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the hedgehogs					for croquet; useful property	tree rules

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