Test 14 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…

Looking back: what was the first sentence in Alice's French lesson-book, which frightened the Mouse in chapter II?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first sentence · What happens: look back, be, frighten · To what, where: first sentence, French lesson book, Mouse, chapter

This is test 14 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sentence	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sentence	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 sentence	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sentence	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sentence	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 sentence	amod
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	15 book	case
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 book	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Alice	case
12	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 book	amod
13	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 book	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 lesson	punct
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sentence	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 frightened	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 frightened	nsubj
18	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sentence	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Mouse	det
20	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 frightened	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 chapter	case
22	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 frightened	obl
23	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	22 chapter	flat
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sentence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past		the first sentence	Alice's French lesson book	tree rules
3	frighten	past	the first sentence	the Mouse	chapter	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice

«Bonjour» (Hello)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Bonjour	punct
2	Bonjour	Bonjour	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Bonjour	punct
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 Hello	punct
5	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	2 Bonjour	parataxis
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 Hello	punct

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

Option 2

«Oui» (Yes)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Oui	punct
2	Oui	Oui	X	Foreign=Yes	5 Yes	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Oui	punct
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 Yes	punct
5	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	root	root
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 Yes	punct

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

Option 3

«Où est la souris?» (Where is the mouse?)

Sentence 1: «Où est la souris?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Où	punct
2	Où	Où	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
3	est	est	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Où	flat:foreign
4	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Où	flat:foreign
5	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Où	flat:foreign
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Où	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Où	punct

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

Sentence 2: (Where is the mouse?)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mouse					where property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«Où est ma chatte?» (Where is my cat?)

Sentence 1: «Où est ma chatte?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 chatte	punct
2	Où	Où	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chatte	compound
3	est	est	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chatte	compound
4	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chatte	compound
5	chatte	chatte	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chatte	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 chatte	punct

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

Sentence 2: (Where is my cat?)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my cat					where property	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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