Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Cro…

Who has the best argument about beheading the Cat, if you think it through?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: best argument, you · What happens: have, behead, think through · To what, where: best argument, Cat

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 argument	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 argument	amod
5	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 beheading	mark
7	beheading	behead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 argument	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beheading	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 think	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 think	obj
15	through	through	ADP	_	13 think	compound:prt
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present		the best argument	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Patient
2	behead	gerund	the best argument not said here	the Cat	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
3	think through speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Cat	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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

The Queen, always

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	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 Queen	advmod

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

Option 2

The King: a head can be cut off, whatever the body is like

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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cut	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	nsubj:pass
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 cut	aux:pass
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whatever	punct
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cut	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 body	det
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whatever	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 like	cop
15	like	like	INTJ	_	8 cut	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	can · passive		the King					tree rules

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

The executioner: with no body, there is nothing to cut the head off from

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 executioner	det
2	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 executioner	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 executioner	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 executioner	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 is	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cut	mark
12	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
16	from	from	ADP	_	12 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	the executioner with no body			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut off	to-infinitive	the executioner with no body not said here	the head					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

Option 4

The Duchess: she is the owner, so she should decide everything

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	12 decide	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 owner	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 owner	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 owner	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 owner	det
7	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Duchess	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decide	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 decide	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 decide	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 decide	aux
12	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 decide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Duchess	the owner					tree rules
2	decide	should	the Duchess	everything					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic

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