Test 14 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

Looking back: in chapter V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't explain myself... because I'm not myself». What does this part's line about yesterday have in common with it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, line · What happens: look back, tell, not explain, not be, do, have · To what, where: Caterpillar, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★★ 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 V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't explain myself... because I'm not myself».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	advcl
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	_	1 Looking	punct
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caterpillar	det
11	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 explain	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 explain	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 explain	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 explain	advmod
16	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 explain	obj
18	...	...	PUNCT	_	23 myself	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 myself	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 myself	nsubj
21	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 myself	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 myself	advmod
23	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 explain	advcl
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 explain	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Alice not said here			in chapter V	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in v=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Alice		the Caterpillar		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not explain speech: assert in a quote	can	Alice	Alice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
4	not is a in a quote	present	Alice	Alice			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.

Sentence 2: What does this part's line about yesterday have in common with it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 part	det
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 line	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 part	case
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 yesterday	case
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 line	nmod
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 common	case
11	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 have	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 common	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present							tree rules
2	have	present	this part's line about yesterday					common property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Both say she has changed so much that she isn't the same person, and both were said to the Caterpillar and the Gryphon

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 changed	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 say	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 person	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 person	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 person	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 person	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 person	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 person	amod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 said	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux:pass
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 Caterpillar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Caterpillar	det
22	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Gryphon	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Gryphon	det
25	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Caterpillar	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Both			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	change	present · perfect	she			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	present	she	the same person		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · passive		both	the Caterpillar and the Gryphon	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to caterpillar=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both say she has changed so much she isn't the same person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 changed	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 say	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 person	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 person	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 person	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 person	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 person	amod
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Both		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	change	present · perfect	she		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	present	she	the same person	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Both complain that the creatures are very rude to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 complain	nsubj
2	complain	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 rude	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creatures	det
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rude	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rude	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 rude	advmod
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 complain	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	present	Both						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the creatures		her = she			rude property	tree rules

Option 4

Both say she should be allowed to leave the hall now, since she has been treated so badly and has nothing more to explain

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	aux:pass
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 leave	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 treated	punct
13	since	since	SCONJ	_	17 treated	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 treated	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 treated	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 treated	aux:pass
17	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 allowed	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 badly	advmod
19	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 treated	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 has	cc
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	conj
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 has	obj
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 nothing	amod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 explain	mark
25	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Both				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	allow	should · passive		she			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the hall	now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme
4	treat	present · perfect · passive		she		badly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	have	present		nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		nothing not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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