Test 13 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…

Looking back: in chapter III, the birds all hurried off. What had Alice said?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: birds, Alice · What happens: look back, hurry off, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: in chapter III, the birds all hurried off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hurried	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hurried	nsubj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 hurried	advmod
11	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 hurried	compound:prt
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hurried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the birds not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	hurry off	past	the birds					all property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What had Alice said?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	obj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That Dinah would «eat a little bird as soon as look at it»

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Dinah	det
2	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 soon	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 eat	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	would	that Dinah	a little bird				soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	look in a quote	infinitive	that Dinah not said here					at Dinah	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

Option 2

That Dinah, her cat, would eat a little bird as soon as she looked at it, and the Mouse was not impressed

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Dinah	det
2	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dinah	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dinah	punct
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 eat	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 looked	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 soon	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 impressed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 impressed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mouse	det
22	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 impressed	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 impressed	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 impressed	advmod
25	impressed	impressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	would	that Dinah	a little bird	soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	look	past	Dinah		at bird	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	not is	past	the Mouse		impressed property	tree rules

Option 3

That Dinah would chase a little bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Dinah	det
2	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chase	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chase	aux
4	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	would	that Dinah	a little bird					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 4

That Dinah would «eat a little bird as soon as look at it», and she repeated this several times after the birds had flown away

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Dinah	det
2	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 soon	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 eat	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 repeated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 repeated	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 repeated	nsubj
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 repeated	obj
21	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 times	amod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 repeated	obl:unmarked
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	27 flown	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 birds	det
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flown	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flown	aux
27	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 repeated	advcl
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 flown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	would	that Dinah	a little bird		soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	look in a quote	infinitive	that Dinah not said here			at Dinah	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	repeat	past	bird	this	time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
4	fly away	past · perfect · passive		the birds		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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