Test 7 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

Why is it sad, and a bit funny, that the Mock Turtle sings about «Beautiful Soup»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Mock Turtle · What happens: be, sing

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	4 sad	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sad	nsubj
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 funny	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 funny	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 funny	obl:unmarked
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sad	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sings	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sings	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Turtle	det
13	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Turtle	compound
14	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sings	nsubj
15	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 funny	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 Soup	case
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 Soup	punct
18	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Soup	amod
19	Soup	Soup	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sings	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 sings	punct
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					sad property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	present	the Mock Turtle					about Beautiful Soup	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about soup=Location

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

Because the soup he sings about is made from turtles, and he is the turtle who was supposed to become that very soup

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soup	det
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sings	nsubj
5	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soup	acl:relcl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 sings	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 turtles	case
10	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turtle	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turtle	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 turtle	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 turtle	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 turtle	det
16	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	advcl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 supposed	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 supposed	aux:pass
19	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 turtle	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 become	mark
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 supposed	xcomp
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 soup	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 soup	advmod
24	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	he	the soup not said here		about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soup=Theme
2	make	present · passive		the soup	turtles		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from turtle=Material
3	is a	present	he	the turtle			tree rules
4	suppose	past · passive		the turtle			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	become	to-infinitive		that soup			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mock turtle soup is what he is supposed to be made into

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soup	compound
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soup	compound
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 supposed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 supposed	aux:pass
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 made	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 supposed	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	11 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Mock turtle soup		tree rules
2	suppose	present · passive		he	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive · passive			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because he is sad and cannot sing well at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 sad	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sing	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sing	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sing	advmod
8	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sad	conj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 sing	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					sad property	tree rules
2	not sing speech: express	can	he not said here			all		well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

Because he sings about soup in a very gloomy voice, which is funny, although the sad song is about a green bowl

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 sings	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sings	nsubj
3	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 soup	case
5	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sings	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 voice	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 voice	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 gloomy	advmod
9	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	amod
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sings	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 funny	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 funny	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 funny	cop
14	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bowl	punct
16	although	although	SCONJ	_	24 bowl	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 song	det
18	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 song	amod
19	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bowl	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bowl	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	24 bowl	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bowl	det
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bowl	amod
24	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	he		a gloomy voice	about soup	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about soup=Location
2	is	present	a gloomy voice			funny property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the sad song	a green bowl		about property	tree rules

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