Test 11 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice asks lots of questions and the creatures are always patient with her.»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: this, Alice, creatures · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: lots

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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: Is this TRUE or FALSE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 TRUE	nsubj
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 FALSE	cc
5	FALSE	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 TRUE	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					true property	tree rules
2	be		this not said here						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: «Alice asks lots of questions and the creatures are always patient with her.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 questions	case
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lots	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 patient	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 creatures	det
9	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 patient	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 patient	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 patient	advmod
12	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asks	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 patient	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	Alice	lots of questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	the creatures					with Alice; always, patient property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

False

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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

False: they call her dull and tell her to be ashamed and to hold her tongue

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	obj
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 call	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 ashamed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ashamed	cop
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hold	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hold	mark
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ashamed	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tongue	nmod:poss
17	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	present	they		her = she	dull property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	they not said here		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive				ashamed property	tree rules
4	hold	to-infinitive		her tongue			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 3

True: they answer every question she asks with great patience and care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asks	dep
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answer	nsubj
4	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asks	advcl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asks	nsubj
8	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 patience	case
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 patience	amod
11	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asks	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 care	cc
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 patience	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	they	every question					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	present	she					with great patience and care	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

True: they like her questions and ask her many more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 questions	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 questions	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 questions	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 questions	nmod:poss
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 True	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 questions	cc
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ask	iobj
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 more	amod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	infinitive	True	many more	her = she				tree rules
2	question		True						nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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