Test 18 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…

★★★ If the lessons lessen by one hour a day, why is the twelfth day a puzzle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lessons · What happens: lessen, be · To what, where: ★ ★ ★, twelfth day

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 lessen	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lessons	det
6	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lessen	nsubj
7	lessen	lessen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ★	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 hour	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hour	nummod
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lessen	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lessen	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 day	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 day	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 puzzle	det
20	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lessen	present	the lessons	★ ★ ★ and the twelfth day not said here			day; hour		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ★=Patient
2	is a	present		the twelfth day				a puzzle nmod	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would be a day with no lessons at all

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	5 day	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 day	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 day	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lessons	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 lessons	det
8	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 day	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 lessons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	a day				with no lessons at all	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would need minus one hour of lessons

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	3 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	minus	minus	CCONJ	_	6 hour	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 lessons	case
8	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

It is a holiday

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 holiday	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 holiday	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 holiday	det
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

It would need one more hour of lessons

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	3 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 hour	amod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 lessons	case
8	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	It				hour		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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