Test 15 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

Looking back: which other soup has been in the book, and what was wrong with it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, book · What happens: look back, soup, be · To what, where: book

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	11 book	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 soup	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 soup	nsubj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soup	amod
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 book	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 book	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 book	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 book	det
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrong	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wrong	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 wrong	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 book	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrong	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 book	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	soup					tree rules
3	is	present · perfect	Looking	the book		tree rules
4	is	past	the book		with book; wrong property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Duchess's soup, which had far too little salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 soup	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Duchess	case
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soup	acl:relcl
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 too	advmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 salt	amod
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Duchess's soup	little salt					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Duchess's cook's soup, with far too much pepper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cook	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Duchess	case
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soup	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cook	case
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pepper	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 pepper	case
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 much	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pepper	amod
12	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soup	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The Duchess's cook's soup, which was served cold in a silver tureen and was full of onions and far too much pepper

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cook	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Duchess	case
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soup	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cook	case
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 served	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 served	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 served	aux:pass
10	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 soup	acl:relcl
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 served	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 tureen	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tureen	det
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tureen	compound
15	tureen	tureen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 served	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 full	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 served	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 onions	case
20	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pepper	cc
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 much	advmod
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pepper	amod
25	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 onions	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive		the Duchess's cook's soup		a silver tureen		cold property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in tureen=Location
2	is	past						of onions and much pepper; full property	tree rules

Option 4

The Duchess's cook's soup, which was made with far too much pepper, so that everyone in the kitchen sneezed all day long

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cook	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Duchess	case
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soup	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cook	case
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 soup	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 pepper	case
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 much	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pepper	amod
15	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sneezed	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 sneezed	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 sneezed	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 everyone	nmod
23	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sneezed	obl:unmarked
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sneezed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the Duchess's cook's soup				with much pepper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	sneeze	past	everyone				day	long property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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