Test 10 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tar…

What shows how nervous the Hatter is?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hatter · What happens: show, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 21 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» 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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 nervous	advmod
4	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hatter	det
6	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nervous	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nervous	cop
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the Hatter					nervous 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

He drops his teacup

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 drops	nsubj
2	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teacup	nmod:poss
4	teacup	teacup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	He	his teacup					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacup=Theme

Option 2

He spills his tea over the table and gets it all over the King's wig

The tree, 16 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 spills	nsubj
2	spills	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tea	nmod:poss
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spills	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spills	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gets	cc
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spills	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	obj
11	all	all	ADV	_	16 wig	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	16 wig	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wig	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	present	He	his tea		the table			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme
2	get	present	He not said here	tea		the King's wig			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

He keeps tapping his teacup and shakes the table with his nervous knees

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tapping	tap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teacup	nmod:poss
5	teacup	teacup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapping	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shakes	cc
7	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shakes	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 knees	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 knees	nmod:poss
12	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 knees	amod
13	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He			tree rules
2	tap	gerund	He not said here	his teacup		vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent teacup=Location
3	shake	present	He not said here	the table	with his nervous knees	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent table=Patient with knee=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He bites a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter

The tree, 15 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 bites	nsubj
2	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 piece	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 piece	amod
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 teacup	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 teacup	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teacup	nmod:poss
9	teacup	teacup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	obl
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 bread	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bread	det
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	obl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 butter	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 butter	cc
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	He	a large piece		his teacup		instead the bread and butter	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient out teacup=Location

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