Test 11 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…

Looking back: at the tea-party, who told Alice «Then you should say what you mean»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tea party, Alice · What happens: look back, tell, say, mean · To what, where: Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 party	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 party	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 party	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 party	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tea	punct
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 party	parataxis
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
14	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 say	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	ccomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 mean	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 mean	nsubj
20	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 party	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the tea party	Alice		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	should	Alice		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean in a quote	present	Alice			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

The Cheshire Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
2	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cat	compound
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Mock Turtle, who was sitting at the tea-table near the Hatter

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 Turtle	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 table	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tea	punct
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 Hatter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Hatter	det
15	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the Mock Turtle			the tea table		near the Hatter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The March Hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
2	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hare	compound
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Gryphon, who was the one who always told the Mock Turtle what to say

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Gryphon	det
2	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gryphon	appos
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 told	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Turtle	det
12	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Turtle	compound
13	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 say	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Gryphon	the one			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the one		the Mock Turtle	always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent turtle=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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