Test 15 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…
★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink made Alice ten inches high. How much shorter than the door was she?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, drink · What happens: be, make · To what, where: Alice, ★
This is test 15 · ★ 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: ★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink made Alice ten inches high.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 high | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 door | amod |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 fifteen | advmod |
| 9 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 inches | nummod |
| 10 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 high | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drink | det |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | advcl |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 inches | nummod |
| 19 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 high | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ★ ★ the little door | fifteen inches obl:unmarked; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the drink | Alice | high property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material alice=Product |
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: How much shorter than the door was she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 shorter | advmod |
| 3 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shorter | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 she | cop |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 door | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shorter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ★ | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ten inches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 inches | nummod |
| 2 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Fifteen inches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 inches | nummod |
| 2 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Five inches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 inches | nummod |
| 2 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Twenty-five inches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 five | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 inches | nummod |
| 4 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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