Test 19 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…
★★★ When the game stops, every player is in custody except three. If eight players had begun, how many are under arrest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, player, eight players, many · What happens: stop, be, begin · To what, where: custody, arrest
This is test 19 · ★★ 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: ★★★ When the game stops, every player is in custody except three.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 stops | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 custody | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 player | det |
| 10 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 custody | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 custody | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 custody | case |
| 13 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | obl |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 three | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 custody | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | ★ | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | every player | custody | except three | 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: If eight players had begun, how many are under arrest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 begun | mark |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 players | nummod |
| 3 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 begun | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begun | aux |
| 5 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arrest | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arrest | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 arrest | cop |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 arrest | case |
| 11 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begun | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 begun | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · perfect | eight players | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | many | arrest | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five players
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 players | nummod |
| 2 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Five of them, sadly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Five | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sadly | punct |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 1 Five | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five, since three were spared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 3 | since | since | ADP | _ | 4 three | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Five | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spared | aux:pass |
| 6 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 three | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past · passive | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset» |
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