Test 5 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Why does Alice change «she's so extremely—» into «—likely to win»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: change, be, win · To what, where: likely

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	4 change	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 extremely	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 extremely	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 extremely	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 extremely	advmod
9	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	4 change	obj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 extremely	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 change	punct
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 likely	case
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 likely	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 likely	punct
15	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 change	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 win	mark
17	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 likely	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 likely	punct
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	change	present · do-support	Alice	into likely result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into likely=Result
2	is in a quote	present	Alice	extremely property	tree rules
3	win in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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

The King is sitting on the hoop nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hoop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hoop	det
7	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	4 sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	the King			the hoop		nearby property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hoop=Location

Option 2

The Queen has told her to be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 polite	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 polite	cop
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	the Queen		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here					polite property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Queen is right behind her, listening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 her	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 her	cop
4	right	right	ADV	_	6 her	advmod
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 listening	punct
8	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 her	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Queen					behind her = she; right property	tree rules
2	listen	gerund	the Queen not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Queen is angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 angry	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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