Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

What would happen if Alice told her adventures «going back to yesterday», by her own logic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: happen, tell, go back, adventure · To what, where: adventures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 adventures	nmod:poss
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	obj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 told	ccomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 yesterday	case
13	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 back	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 logic	punct
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 logic	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 logic	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 logic	amod
19	logic	logic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Alice	Alice's adventures	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go back in a quote	gerund			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	adventure		Alice		nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

They'd be very long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 long	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 long	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					long property	tree rules

Option 2

They'd be about her sister instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sister	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sister	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 sister	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 sister	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					about her sister; instead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They'd be about someone she isn't any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 someone	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 someone	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 any	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 any	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 any	advmod
9	any	any	ADV	_	5 someone	acl:relcl
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 any	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					about someone	tree rules
2	not is	present	she					any property	tree rules

Option 4

They'd be about a girl from London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 girl	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 girl	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 girl	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 London	case
8	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 girl	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They			London		about a girl	tree rules

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