Test 18 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…
★★★ «Porpoise» and «purpose», «soles» and «souls», «whiting» and «whitening». Which of these pairs is NOT used as a joke in this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: whiten, not use
This is test 18 · ★★ 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: ★★★ «Porpoise» and «purpose», «soles» and «souls», «whiting» and «whitening».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | _ | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Porpoise | punct |
| 5 | Porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Porpoise | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 purpose | cc |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 purpose | punct |
| 9 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Porpoise | conj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Porpoise | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 soles | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 soles | punct |
| 13 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ★ | appos |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 soles | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 souls | cc |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 souls | punct |
| 17 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 soles | conj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 soles | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whiting | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 whiting | punct |
| 21 | whiting | whiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 whiting | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 whitening | cc |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 whitening | punct |
| 25 | whitening | whiten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ★ | conj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 whitening | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whiten in a quote | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: Which of these pairs is NOT used as a joke in this part?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 used | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 pairs | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 pairs | det |
| 4 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Which | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 used | advmod |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 joke | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joke | det |
| 10 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joke | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | present · passive | as a joke in this part | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: which=Duration as joke=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Porpoise and purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 purpose | cc |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Porpoise | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Eels and heels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 heels | cc |
| 3 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Eels | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Soles and souls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 souls | cc |
| 3 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Soles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Soles and eels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 eels | cc |
| 3 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Soles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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