Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Why is it «no use speaking to it till its ears have come»?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, use, ears · What happens: be, speak, come · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 use	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 use	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 speaking	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ears	nmod:poss
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 speaking	advcl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	no use		tree rules
2	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	no use not said here		use	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	use's ears			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

She thinks it cannot see her yet

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thinks	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not see	can	it	her = she			yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2

It is too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 small	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					small property	tree rules

Option 3

It has no mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 mouth	det
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no mouth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Alice thinks it couldn't hear her without ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thinks	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	obj
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 ears	case
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Alice						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not hear	could	it	Alice				without ears	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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