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Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…

★★★ Count the steps the creatures shout out: advance twice, set to partners, change lobsters, retire, throw the lobsters, swim after them, somersault, change lobsters again, back to land. How many times do you «change lobsters»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, creatures, many times, change · What happens: count, shout out, advance, set, change, retire · To what, where: steps, lobsters, somersault, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Count the steps the creatures shout out: advance twice, set to partners, change lobsters, retire, throw the lobsters, swim after them, somersault, change lobsters again, back to land.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Count	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
4	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steps	det
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Count	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creatures	det
8	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shout	nsubj
9	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 steps	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 shout	compound:prt
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 advance	punct
12	advance	advance	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 Count	parataxis
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 advance	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 advance	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 partners	case
17	partners	partner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 set	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 change	punct
19	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 advance	conj
20	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 change	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 retire	punct
22	retire	retire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 change	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct
24	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 change	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lobsters	det
26	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 throw	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swim	punct
28	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 throw	conj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 swim	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 somersault	punct
32	somersault	somersault	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swim	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 change	punct
34	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 advance	conj
35	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 change	obj
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 change	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 back	punct
38	back	back	ADV	_	34 change	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 land	case
40	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 back	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	infinitive	★	the steps					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
2	shout out speech: express	present	the creatures	the steps not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Topic
3	advance	infinitive						twice property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	set	infinitive						to partners	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	change	infinitive		lobsters					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=Patient
6	retire	infinitive							vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	throw	infinitive		the lobsters					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=Theme
8	swim	infinitive		somersault			after creatures = creature		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	change	infinitive		lobsters			again		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobster=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: How many times do you «change lobsters»?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 lobsters	punct
7	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lobsters	nsubj
8	lobsters	lobster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	parataxis
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 lobsters	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many times	you					tree rules
2	lobster in a quote	present	change						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

1

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Four times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

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

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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