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Test 11 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

Looking back: in chapter II, Alice tried to say «How doth the little busy bee». What came out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, try, say, do, come out · To what, where: little busy bee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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: in chapter II, Alice tried to say «How doth the little busy bee».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tried	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 doth	punct
13	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 doth	advmod
14	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bee	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bee	amod
17	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bee	amod
18	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doth	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 doth	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Alice not said here					in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	try	past	Alice						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	present		the little busy bee					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Eventuality

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: What came out?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past						out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«How doth the little fish improve his golden fins»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 doth	advmod
3	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 improve	nsubj
7	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 doth	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fins	nmod:poss
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fins	amod
10	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 improve	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present							tree rules
2	improve in a quote	present	the little fish	his golden fins					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fin=Patient

Option 2

«How doth the crocodile»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 doth	advmod
3	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crocodile	det
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doth	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present		the crocodile					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Eventuality

Option 3

«How doth the little mouse improve his silver tail»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 doth	advmod
3	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mouse	amod
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doth	obj
7	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 doth	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tail	compound
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 improve	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present		the little mouse					tree rules
2	improve in a quote	infinitive		mouse's silver tail					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 doth	advmod
3	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crocodile	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crocodile	amod
6	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doth	obj
7	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 doth	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
9	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tail	amod
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 improve	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 doth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present		the little crocodile					tree rules
2	improve in a quote	infinitive		crocodile's shining tail					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	shine in a quote	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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