Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

Looking back: in chapter V, what did the Caterpillar say about Alice's «Father William»?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapter V, Caterpillar · What happens: look back, do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 V	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 V	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 V	compound
6	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 V	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caterpillar	det
11	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 did	parataxis
13	about	about	ADP	_	18 William	case
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 William	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Alice	case
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 Father	punct
17	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 William	compound
18	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 V	punct
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		in chapter V	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in v=Theme
2	do	past	chapter V		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the Caterpillar	about Alice's Father William	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

«It is nonsense from start to finish»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 nonsense	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nonsense	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nonsense	cop
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 start	case
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nonsense	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 finish	mark
8	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nonsense	advcl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 nonsense	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	nonsense		start			tree rules
2	finish in a quote	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

«It is wrong from beginning to end, and I am certain no child could ever say it properly»

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 beginning	mark
6	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wrong	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beginning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 certain	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 certain	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 certain	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 certain	cop
13	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wrong	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 say	advmod
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 certain	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obj
20	properly	properly	ADV	_	18 say	advmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It			wrong property	tree rules
2	begin in a quote	gerund			to end		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	present	I			certain property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	could	no child	end	ever	properly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«It is wrong from beginning to end»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 beginning	mark
6	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wrong	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beginning	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	begin in a quote	gerund					to end		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

«It is wrong from beginning to end, and the poem should be recited again from the start by you»

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 beginning	mark
6	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wrong	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beginning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 recited	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 recited	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poem	det
12	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recited	nsubj:pass
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 recited	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 recited	aux:pass
15	recited	recite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wrong	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 recited	advmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 start	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 start	det
19	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recited	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 start	nmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It				wrong property	tree rules
2	begin in a quote	gerund				to end		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	recite in a quote	should · passive		the poem	the start by you	again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	start in a quote		you					nom start «event transitive»: by=agent

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