Test 5 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…

True or false: Alice thinks it is dull that the first bite of cake does nothing.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, it, first bite · What happens: think, be, do, bite · To what, where: nothing, cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 thinks	punct
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thinks	nsubj
6	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dull	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dull	cop
9	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thinks	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 does	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bite	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 bite	amod
13	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 does	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cake	case
15	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bite	nmod
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dull	advcl
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 does	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Alice			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it		dull property	tree rules
3	do	present	the first bite of cake	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	bite			cake		nom bite «state transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1

True: she wanted to grow taller than the Rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 True	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grow	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 Rabbit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rabbit	det
10	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

False: she is happy to stay the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 False	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					happy property	tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	she not said here	the same size					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme size=Location

Option 3

False: she never notices her size at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 notices	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 notices	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 notices	advmod
5	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 size	nmod:poss
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notices	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 notices	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	present	she	her size		all			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

True: she expected only out-of-the-way things now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 expected	nsubj
4	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	12 way	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 way	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 the	punct
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 things	compound
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 expected	obj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 expected	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past	she	way things			now		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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