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

«They never executes nobody» — say it in standard English.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: They · What happens: not execute, say · To what, where: nobody, it, standard English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 executes	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 executes	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 executes	advmod
4	executes	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 executes	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 executes	punct
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 executes	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 English	case
11	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 English	amod
12	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 executes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not execute in a quote	present	They	nobody					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		it		standard English			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in english=Manner

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

They never execute anybody, and the Queen says so each day at noon in the great hall

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 execute	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 execute	advmod
3	execute	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 execute	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 execute	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 says	advmod
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obl:unmarked
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 noon	case
14	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hall	amod
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not execute	present	They	anybody					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	the Queen				day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

They never execute anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 execute	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 execute	advmod
3	execute	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 execute	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not execute	present	They	anybody					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient

Option 3

Nobody is never executed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 executed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 executed	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 executed	advmod
4	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not execute	present · passive		Nobody					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

They execute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 execute	nsubj
2	execute	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	execute	present	They						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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