Test 7 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadri…

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «The Gryphon's explanation of the whiting's tail is a real fact about fish.»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this, explanation, tail · What happens: be, explain · To what, where: real fact

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Is this TRUE or FALSE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 TRUE	nsubj
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 FALSE	cc
5	FALSE	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 TRUE	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					true property	tree rules
2	be		this not said here						tree rules

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: «The Gryphon's explanation of the whiting's tail is a real fact about fish.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 fact	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Gryphon	det
3	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 explanation	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Gryphon	case
5	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fact	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 tail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whiting	det
8	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tail	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 whiting	case
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explanation	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fact	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fact	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fact	amod
14	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 fish	case
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fact	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fact	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 fact	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Gryphon's explanation of the whiting's tail	a real fact				about fish	tree rules
2	explain in a quote		the whiting's tail						nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

False: it's a made-up chain of «so... so... so...» to sound reasonable

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 so	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 chain	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chain	det
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 chain	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
9	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 False	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 so	case
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 so	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	9 chain	nmod
13	...	...	PUNCT	_	16 so	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 so	advmod
15	...	...	PUNCT	_	16 so	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 sound	advmod
17	...	...	PUNCT	_	16 so	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 so	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sound	mark
20	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a made chain		tree rules
3	sound	to-infinitive			reasonable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

False: whitings have no tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whitings	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	whitings	whiting	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 tails	det
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	False whitings	no tails					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 3

True: fish really do get stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	appos
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	fish					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

False: it's a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joke	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a False joke					tree rules

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