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Test 15 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…

Looking back: in chapter III, the Mouse said a history lesson was «the driest thing I know». Why did he recite it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mouse, history lesson · What happens: look back, say, be, know, recite · To what, where: driest thing, lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ 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: Looking back: in chapter III, the Mouse said a history lesson was «the driest thing I know».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mouse	det
9	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lesson	det
12	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lesson	compound
13	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	driest	dry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
20	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	acl:relcl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Mouse not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Mouse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	a history lesson	the driest thing					tree rules
4	know in a quote	present	the Mouse = mouse	the driest thing not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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: Why did he recite it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 recite	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recite	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recite	nsubj
4	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recite	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 recite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite	past · do-support	Mouse	lesson					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

To dry everyone off after the pool of tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dry	mark
2	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 dry	obj
4	off	off	ADV	_	2 dry	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dry	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 tears	case
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pool	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry off	to-infinitive		everyone			after the pool of tears	off property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient everyone=Result

Option 2

To be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 polite	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 polite	cop
3	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						polite property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To make the Duck laugh at the wet ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Duck	det
4	Duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ground	amod
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the Duck					tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	the Duck not said here			the wet ground			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To keep the Mouse awake in the cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mouse	det
4	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the Mouse		the cold water		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in water=Location

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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