Test 8 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…
Match the pun: «Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography». Which real school subjects are hidden here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: match, hide · To what, where: pun, real school subjects
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Match the pun: «Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Match | match | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pun | det |
| 3 | pun | pun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Match | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mystery | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mystery | punct |
| 6 | Mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pun | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ancient | punct |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Mystery | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 modern | cc |
| 10 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ancient | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Seaography | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Seaography | case |
| 13 | Seaography | seaography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mystery | conj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Seaography | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Match | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | match | imperative | you not said here | the pun | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pun=Patient |
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: Which real school subjects are hidden here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hidden | obj |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 subjects | amod |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 subjects | compound |
| 4 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hidden | aux:pass |
| 6 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hidden | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hidden | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · passive | real school subjects | here | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Geometry and biology
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geometry | geometry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 biology | cc |
| 3 | biology | biology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Geometry | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mystery and arithmetic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 arithmetic | cc |
| 3 | arithmetic | arithmetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mystery | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
History and geography
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 geography | cc |
| 3 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 History | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography, and also Drawling and Stretching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ancient | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ancient | punct |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 modern | cc |
| 5 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ancient | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Seaography | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Seaography | case |
| 8 | Seaography | seaography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ancient | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Drawling | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Drawling | cc |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 Drawling | advmod |
| 12 | Drawling | Drawling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ancient | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Stretching | cc |
| 14 | Stretching | Stretching | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Drawling | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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