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Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…

«Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.» What is the whiting trying to do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, whiting · What happens: turn, come, join, be, try, do · To what, where: beloved snail, dance

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: «Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turn	advmod
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pale	advmod
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snail	punct
7	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snail	amod
8	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 join	cc
13	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 come	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dance	det
15	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 join	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	imperative	you not said here	beloved snail			then	pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	infinitive	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	join in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the dance					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=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: What is the whiting trying to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whiting	det
4	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 whiting	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the whiting						tree rules
2	try	gerund	the whiting not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whiting not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Scare the snail away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snail	det
3	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scare	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	imperative	you not said here	the snail				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus snail=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell the snail to stop crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snail	det
3	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the snail				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent snail=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Warn the snail about the porpoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snail	det
3	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Warn	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 porpoise	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porpoise	det
6	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Warn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	imperative	you not said here		the snail			about the porpoise	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent snail=Recipient about porpoise=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Persuade the scared snail that being thrown far out to sea is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persuade	persuade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snail	det
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snail	amod
4	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fine	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 thrown	nsubj:pass
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thrown	aux:pass
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snail	acl:relcl
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 out	advmod
9	out	out	ADV	_	7 thrown	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 sea	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Persuade	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	imperative	you not said here						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	throw	gerund · passive		the scared snail		sea		out property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to sea=Destination
3	is	present	the scared snail					fine property	tree rules

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