Test 18 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…

★★★ «Birds of a feather flock together» is said about flamingoes and mustard. What is wrong with the moral as a piece of logic?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say, be · To what, where: ★ · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★ 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: ★★★ «Birds of a feather flock together» is said about flamingoes and mustard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj:pass
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Birds	punct
5	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ★	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 flock	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flock	det
8	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flock	compound
9	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Birds	nmod
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 flock	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 Birds	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux:pass
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 flamingoes	case
15	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mustard	cc
17	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flamingoes	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		★				about flamingoes and mustard	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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 is wrong with the moral as a piece of logic?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 moral	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moral	det
6	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 piece	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 piece	det
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 logic	case
11	logic	logic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 piece	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with the moral; as a piece of logic; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It lists two things, but neither of them is a flamingo

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 lists	nsubj
2	lists	list	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 things	nummod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lists	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flamingo	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 flamingo	cc
7	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	12 flamingo	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 neither	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 flamingo	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 flamingo	det
12	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lists	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	list	present	It	two things					tree rules
2	is a	present	neither	a flamingo					tree rules

Option 2

It is about flamingoes, but flamingoes do not flock

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	4 flamingoes	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flamingoes	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 flamingoes	case
4	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flock	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 flock	cc
7	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flock	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flock	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 flock	advmod
10	flock	flock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flamingoes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about flamingoes	tree rules
2	not flock	present · do-support	flamingoes						vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is about birds, but one of the two things is not a bird, and so the moral cannot prove anything about flamingoes at all

The tree, 26 words

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	4 birds	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 birds	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 bird	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bird	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 things	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 things	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 things	nummod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bird	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 bird	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birds	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 prove	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prove	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 prove	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moral	det
20	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prove	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 prove	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 prove	advmod
23	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 birds	parataxis
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 prove	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 flamingoes	case
26	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 anything	nmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 prove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			about birds	tree rules
2	not is a	present	one of the two things	a bird			tree rules
3	not prove	can	the moral	anything	all	about flamingoes	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is about birds, but one of the two things is not a bird

The tree, 14 words

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	4 birds	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 birds	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 bird	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bird	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 things	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 things	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 things	nummod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bird	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 bird	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about birds	tree rules
2	not is a	present	one of the two things	a bird					tree rules

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