Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…
★★★ Alice's rule: pepper → hot-tempered, vinegar → sour, camomile → bitter, barley-sugar → sweet. What do the four words describe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, four words · What happens: temper, rule, describe · To what, where: pepper
This is test 17 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Alice's rule: pepper → hot-tempered, vinegar → sour, camomile → bitter, barley-sugar → sweet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 rule | case |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rule | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Alice | case |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 pepper | punct |
| 8 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rule | appos |
| 9 | → | → | SYM | _ | 10 hot | punct |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tempered | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hot | punct |
| 12 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pepper | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vinegar | punct |
| 14 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pepper | appos |
| 15 | → | → | ADP | _ | 16 sour | case |
| 16 | sour | sour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vinegar | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 camomile | punct |
| 18 | camomile | camomile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pepper | conj |
| 19 | → | → | ADP | _ | 20 bitter | case |
| 20 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 camomile | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sugar | punct |
| 22 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sugar | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 barley | punct |
| 24 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pepper | conj |
| 25 | → | → | SYM | _ | 26 sweet | punct |
| 26 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sugar | amod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | temper | participle | pepper and camomile → bitter and barley sugar not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rule | Alice | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: What do the four words describe?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 describe | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 describe | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 words | nummod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 describe | nsubj |
| 6 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 describe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · do-support | the four words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Foods that people cook in soup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 cook | obj |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cook | nsubj |
| 4 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Foods | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 soup | case |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cook | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present | people | Foods | in soup | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent that=Patient in soup=Instrument |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Both a taste and a person's mood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 taste | cc:preconj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 taste | det |
| 3 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mood | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 person | case |
| 8 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taste | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Pepper's smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smell | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pepper | case |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | Pepper | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Names of herbs from the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 herbs | case |
| 3 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Names | nmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 herbs | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | herbs from the garden | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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