Test 6 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…

Why does the book call it "stupid" that life went "on in the common way" after the cake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: book, that · What happens: call, go · To what, where: it, common way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 call	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stupid	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stupid	punct
8	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stupid	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 went	nsubj
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stupid	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 cake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cake	det
22	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stupid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	the book	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	go	past	that			the common way	after the cake		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Alice now expected strange things to happen every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 expected	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 expected	advmod
3	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 expected	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 happen	mark
7	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 expected	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happen	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past	Alice	strange things			now		tree rules
2	happen not said to happen	to-infinitive	strange things not said here				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The cake tasted stale and dry and quite horrible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	nsubj
3	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tasted	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dry	cc
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stale	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 horrible	cc
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 horrible	advmod
9	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	the cake					stale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Alice was tired and wanted to go back to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice	tired property	tree rules
2	want	past	Alice not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result

Option 4

Her sister had said that cake makes you stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 makes	mark
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 makes	obj
9	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Her sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	present	cake	you				stupid property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

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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