Test 16 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…

Looking back: «mock» means pretend. Who loved to pretend in chapter I, even playing croquet against herself?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, mean, pretend, love, play · To what, where: mock, chapter, croquet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: «mock» means pretend.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 means	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 mock	punct
5	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 mock	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund		mock	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present	Looking		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pretend not said to happen	infinitive	Looking not said here		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.

Sentence 2: Who loved to pretend in chapter I, even playing croquet against herself?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pretend	mark
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loved	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 chapter	case
6	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretend	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 chapter	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 playing	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 playing	advmod
10	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pretend	advcl
11	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	obj
12	against	against	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 playing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	past			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	pretend not said to happen	to-infinitive	chapter		tree rules
3	play	gerund	croquet	against herself = she	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme

The options

Option 1

The White Rabbit, always pretending to be a clock and a pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rabbit	det
2	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Rabbit	amod
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pretending	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Rabbit	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 pretending	advmod
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 clock	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 clock	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clock	det
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretending	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pig	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pig	det
13	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund	the White Rabbit					always property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	the White Rabbit not said here	a clock and a pig					tree rules

Option 2

The Mock Turtle, who was always telling jokes about soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 telling	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 telling	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 telling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 telling	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 telling	advmod
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 telling	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 soup	case
11	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jokes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Mock Turtle					always, tell property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Alice, «very fond of pretending to be two people»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Alice	amod
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 pretending	mark
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fond	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	11 people	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 people	cop
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 people	nummod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pretending	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend in a quote	gerund							tree rules
2	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		two people					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Duchess

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	root	root

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

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