Test 16 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…
★★★ Read carefully: did Alice find the little door the first time she went round the hall?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, Alice · What happens: read, find, go · To what, where: little door, first time
This is test 16 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Read | nsubj |
| 4 | Read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 Read | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 find | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Read | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 door | amod |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Read | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | infinitive | ★ ★ | carefully property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past · do-support | Alice | the little door | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | |||
| 3 | go | past | Alice | the first time not said here | round the hall | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, at once, behind the table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 once | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 once | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 once | punct |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 once | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, on the second time round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 time | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, because the Rabbit showed her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 showed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 showed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 5 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showed | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the Rabbit | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
Option 4
No, only on the third time round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 round | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 round | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 round | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 round | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 round | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 round | compound |
| 8 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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