Test 12 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…
Looking back: when Alice fell, she thought she would come out among the "Antipathies". Now at the bottom, where is she really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, fall, think, come out, be · To what, where: bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» 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: Looking back: when Alice fell, she thought she would come out among the "Antipathies".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 fell | advmod |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Looking | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 Antipathies | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Antipathies | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Antipathies | punct |
| 17 | Antipathies | antipathy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Antipathies | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Alice not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | Alice | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come out | would | Alice | among the Antipathies; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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: Now at the bottom, where is she really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bottom | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 bottom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottom | det |
| 4 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bottom | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 where | cop |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 where | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 where | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bottom | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice | the bottom not said here | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
At the centre of the earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 earth | det |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Back on the riverbank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 riverbank | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 riverbank | det |
| 4 | riverbank | riverbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Back | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In New Zealand or else in Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Zealand | case |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | flat |
| 3 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 Australia | cc |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 Australia | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Australia | case |
| 7 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In a long hall with locked doors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hall | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hall | amod |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 doors | case |
| 6 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 doors | amod |
| 7 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hall | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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