Test 2 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's…

Why is Alice's «rule» about pepper and barley-sugar a funny one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rule, Alice · What happens: be, rule

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rule	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Alice	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 rule	punct
6	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 rule	punct
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 pepper	case
9	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rule	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sugar	cc
11	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sugar	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 barley	punct
13	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pepper	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pepper	appos
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Alice's rule about pepper and barley sugar					why property	tree rules
2	rule in a quote		Alice					about pepper and barley sugar	nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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.

The options

Option 1

Her rule is a true one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rule	nmod:poss
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Her rule	a true one					tree rules
2	rule		Her = she						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She invents a «rule» from one guess, and sour, bitter and sweet are both tastes and moods

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 invents	nsubj
2	invents	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 rule	punct
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 invents	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 rule	punct
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 guess	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 guess	nummod
9	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 invents	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sour	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sour	cc
12	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tastes	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bitter	punct
14	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sour	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sweet	cc
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sour	conj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tastes	cop
18	both	both	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tastes	amod
19	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 invents	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 moods	cc
21	moods	mood	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tastes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	present	She	a rule		one guess			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent rule=Result from guess=Material
2	is a	present		sour both tastes and moods					tree rules

Option 3

It is about pepper

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 pepper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pepper	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 pepper	case
4	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about pepper	tree rules

Option 4

It is a rule about cooks and soups and nothing else

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 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 cooks	case
6	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rule	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soups	cc
8	soups	soup	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cooks	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nothing	cc
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 cooks	conj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule				about cooks and soups	tree rules

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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