Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…
Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: this, Alice · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: Lobster poem · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Is this TRUE or FALSE?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 TRUE | cop |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 TRUE | nsubj |
| 3 | TRUE | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 FALSE | cc |
| 5 | FALSE | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 TRUE | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 TRUE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this not said here | 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: «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| 2 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 poem | det |
| 5 | Lobster | Lobster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 poem | compound |
| 6 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 7 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 3 tells | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Alice | the Lobster poem | perfectly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent poem=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
False: it comes out as nonsense about a Lobster baked too brown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comes | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 comes | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 nonsense | case |
| 7 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 Lobster | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Lobster | det |
| 10 | Lobster | lobster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nonsense | nmod |
| 11 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Lobster | acl |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 brown | advmod |
| 13 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 baked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | it | as nonsense about a Lobster | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bake | participle | a Lobster not said here | brown property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
True: it is about a Lobster and a sea of soup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Lobster | amod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lobster | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Lobster | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lobster | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Lobster | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Lobster | det |
| 7 | Lobster | Lobster | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sea | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lobster | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 soup | case |
| 12 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sea | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | about a True Lobster and a sea of soup | tree rules |
Option 3
True: she recites the Lobster poem correctly, every line
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 recites | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recites | nsubj |
| 4 | recites | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 True | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poem | det |
| 6 | Lobster | Lobster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 poem | compound |
| 7 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recites | obj |
| 8 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 4 recites | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 line | punct |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 line | det |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 True | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | present | she | the Lobster poem | correctly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |
Option 4
True
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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