Test 16 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…

Looking back: in chapter II, what did Alice believe you always find at the English seaside?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, you · What happens: look back, believe, find · To what, where: chapter, English seaside · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	5 chapter	csubj
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	root	root
6	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 believe	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	aux
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 believe	nsubj
11	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chapter	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	ccomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 seaside	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 seaside	det
17	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seaside	amod
18	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	believe	past · do-support	Alice	chapter			tree rules
3	find	present	you		the English seaside	always property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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

Bathing machines and children digging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	compound
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 digging	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 children	cc
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 machines	conj
5	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund	Bathing machines and children						vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Lodging houses and a bus station

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lodging	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 houses	amod
2	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 station	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 station	det
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 station	compound
6	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 houses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lodge	gerund							vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Bathing machines, children digging, lodging houses and a railway station, all near the sand and sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	compound
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 digging	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 children	punct
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 machines	conj
5	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lodging	punct
7	lodging	lodge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 digging	conj
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lodging	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 station	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 station	det
11	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 station	compound
12	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 houses	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sand	punct
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 sand	advmod
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 sand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sand	det
17	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 digging	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sea	cc
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund	Bathing machines and children						vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lodge	gerund	Bathing machines and children not said here	houses and a railway station					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bathing machines, children digging, lodging houses and a railway station

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	compound
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 children	punct
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 machines	conj
5	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 children	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lodging	punct
7	lodging	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 digging	conj
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lodging	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 station	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 station	det
11	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 station	compound
12	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund	children not said here						vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lodge	gerund	children not said here	houses					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location

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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