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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.

nsubjpunctflatadvmoddetnsubjpunctdetnsubjcopcaseoblcasenmodpunctroot★PROPN★PUNCT★PROPNWhenADVtheDETgameNOUNstopsVERB,PUNCTeveryDETplayerNOUNisAUXinADPcustodyNOUNexceptADPthreeNUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1★★PROPNNumber=Sing7 stopsnsubj
2★★PUNCT_1 ★punct
3★★PROPNNumber=Sing1 ★flat
4WhenwhenADVPronType=Int7 stopsadvmod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 gamedet
6gamegameNOUNNumber=Sing7 stopsnsubj
7stopsstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8,,PUNCT_13 custodypunct
9everyeveryDETPronType=Tot10 playerdet
10playerplayerNOUNNumber=Sing13 custodynsubj
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 custodycop
12ininADP_13 custodycase
13custodycustodyNOUNNumber=Sing7 stopsobl
14exceptexceptADP_15 threecase
15threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card13 custodynmod
16..PUNCT_7 stopspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stoppresent★vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2ispresentevery playercustodyexcept threetree 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?

marknummodnsubjauxpunctadvmodnsubjcopcaseconjpunctrootIfSCONJeightNUMplayersNOUNhadAUXbegunVERB,PUNCThowADVmanyADJareAUXunderADParrestNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IfifSCONJ_5 begunmark
2eighteightNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 playersnummod
3playersplayerNOUNNumber=Plur5 begunnsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 begunaux
5begunbeginVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
6,,PUNCT_11 arrestpunct
7howhowADVPronType=Int8 manyadvmod
8manymanyADJDegree=Pos11 arrestnsubj
9arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 arrestcop
10underunderADP_11 arrestcase
11arrestarrestNOUNNumber=Sing5 begunconj
12??PUNCT_5 begunpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1beginpast · perfecteight playersvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2ispresentmanyarresttree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

5

root5NUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
155NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Cardrootroot

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

Option 2

Five players

nummodrootFiveNUMplayersNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 playersnummod
2playersplayerNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

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

Option 3

Five of them, sadly

casenmodpunctconjrootFiveNUMofADPthemPRON,PUNCTsadlyADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Cardrootroot
2ofofADP_3 themcase
3themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs1 Fivenmod
4,,PUNCT_5 sadlypunct
5sadlysadlyADV_1 Fiveconj

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

Option 4

Five, since three were spared

punctcaseconjaux:passaclrootFiveNUM,PUNCTsinceADPthreeNUMwereAUXsparedVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Cardrootroot
2,,PUNCT_4 threepunct
3sincesinceADP_4 threecase
4threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card1 Fiveconj
5werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 sparedaux:pass
6sparedspareVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 threeacl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sparepast · passivevn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»

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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