Test 3 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

Why does the Mock Turtle find «It all came different!» so interesting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mock Turtle, Turtle · What happens: find, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 find	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Turtle	det
4	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Turtle	compound
5	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 interesting	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 It	det
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	ccomp
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	xcomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 different	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 interesting	advmod
15	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 interesting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · do-support	the Mock Turtle						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come in a quote	past	Turtle					different property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He wants to hear Alice recite something new now, to see whether it comes out wrong again the same way as before, which he finds funny

The tree, 26 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hear	mark
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 recite	advcl
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 recite	nsubj
6	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 recite	obj
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 recite	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 recite	conj
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 comes	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 comes	compound:prt
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 comes	xcomp
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 comes	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 before	case
23	before	before	ADV	_	21 way	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 finds	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 finds	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 finds	nsubj
27	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 way	acl:relcl
28	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 finds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	recite not said to happen	infinitive	Alice	something	now		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come out	present	it	the same way	again	wrong property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	find	present	the same way			funny property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He wants to hear Alice recite something now and see if it goes wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hear	mark
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 recite	nsubj
6	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 recite	obj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 recite	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 recite	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 goes	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	advcl
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 goes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	recite not said to happen	infinitive	Alice	something	now		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	see	infinitive	Alice not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	go a condition, not said to happen	present	it			wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He had never before heard a girl say those words, so he wants to know the whole story of her adventures right away

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 before	advmod
4	before	before	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	xcomp
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wants	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 wants	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wants	nsubj
14	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 know	mark
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wants	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 adventures	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 adventures	nmod:poss
22	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 story	nmod
23	right	right	ADV	_	24 away	advmod
24	away	away	ADV	_	16 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	He	a girl	before property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	a girl not said here	that words		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	want	present	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the whole story of girl's adventures	away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
5	adventure		girl			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He wants Alice to sing the Quadrille while he listens closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Quadrille	det
7	Quadrille	quadrille	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 listens	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 listens	nsubj
10	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	advcl
11	closely	closely	ADV	_	10 listens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	Alice		tree rules
2	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	the Quadrille		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quadrille=Theme
3	listen	present	Alice		closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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