Test 6 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…

«They have their tails in their mouths» — why did Alice think this?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: They, Alice · What happens: have, think · To what, where: tails, mouths, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 think	advcl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tails	nmod:poss
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouths	nmod:poss
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 think	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 think	aux
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 think	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	They	their tails		tails's mouths			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	think speech: other	past · do-support	Alice	this					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=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.

The options

Option 1

Whitings were served curled up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whitings	whiting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 served	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 served	aux:pass
3	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 served	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 curled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive		Whitings					tree rules
2	curl up	participle							vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Whitings were cooked with their tails in mouths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whitings	whiting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cooked	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cooked	aux:pass
3	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 tails	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tails	nmod:poss
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cooked	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past · passive		Whitings		mouths		with Whitings's tails	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tail=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Whitings were kept in dishes with crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whitings	whiting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux:pass
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 dishes	case
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 crumbs	case
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · passive		Whitings		dishes		with crumbs	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dish=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Whitings were served curled up like that, with crumbs, in her time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whitings	whiting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 served	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 served	aux:pass
3	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 served	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 curled	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 curled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crumbs	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 crumbs	case
10	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 served	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 time	nmod:poss
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 served	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive		Whitings			time	with crumbs	tree rules
2	curl up	participle						like that	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

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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