Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…

Looking back: what happened to the Duchess's baby in chapter VI?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, happen

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 17 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 baby	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Duchess	det
8	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 baby	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Duchess	case
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 chapter	case
12	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 baby	nmod
13	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	12 chapter	flat
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	happen	past						to the Duchess's baby in chapter	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

It was lost

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	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

It was taken by the cook into the sea

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	3 taken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 cook	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive	the cook	It		the sea			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into sea=Destination

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

It turned into a pig and trotted off into the wood

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 pig	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pig	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trotted	cc
7	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 trotted	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It					into a pig result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pig=Result
2	trot off	past				the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination

Option 4

It ran away

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	It					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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