Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…

«Fainting in Coils» hides which real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fainting · What happens: hide · To what, where: real lesson

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	2 Fainting	punct
2	Fainting	fainting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hides	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Coils	case
4	Coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Fainting	nmod
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Fainting	punct
6	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 lesson	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lesson	amod
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hides	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Fainting in Coils	which real lesson					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Drawling, stretching, and fainting in coils, with extra lessons in painting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drawling	drawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretching	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stretching	punct
3	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fainting	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fainting	cc
6	fainting	fainting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretching	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 coils	case
8	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fainting	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lessons	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 lessons	case
11	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lessons	amod
12	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stretching	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 painting	case
14	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lessons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	gerund	Drawling	fainting in coils				with extra lessons in painting	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lesson=Instrument

Option 2

Singing in tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 tune	case
3	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund				tune			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tune=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Painting in oils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 oils	case
3	oils	oil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Painting	nmod

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

Option 4

Fainting in coils, with extra lessons in Drawing and Sketching every afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 coils	case
3	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fainting	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lessons	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 lessons	case
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lessons	amod
7	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 coils	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Drawing	case
9	Drawing	Drawing	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lessons	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Sketching	cc
11	Sketching	sketch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fainting	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 afternoon	det
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Sketching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	gerund				coils and extra lessons in Drawing			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	sketch	gerund					afternoon		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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