Test 6 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tar…

Why does the jury adding up three dates as shillings and pence make no sense?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jury, shillings · What happens: do, add up, make · To what, where: jury, three dates, sense

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jury	det
4	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 jury	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 adding	compound:prt
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 dates	nummod
8	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 adding	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
10	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pence	cc
12	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shillings	conj
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 adding	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 sense	det
15	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		the jury	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jury=Eventuality
2	add up speech: assert	gerund	the jury not said here	three dates	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient
3	make	present	shillings and pence	no sense	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product

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

Shillings are too old to use in court now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 use	mark
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 old	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 court	case
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Shillings					old property	tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive	Shillings not said here			court	now		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Dates are not money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 money	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 money	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 money	advmod
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Dates	money					tree rules

Option 3

The sum is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sum					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dates are not money, and adding them gives nothing useful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 money	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 money	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 money	advmod
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gives	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gives	cc
7	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 gives	csubj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 adding	obj
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 money	acl:relcl
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 gives	obj
11	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	Dates	money	tree rules
2	add speech: assert	gerund		Dates = date	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	give	present	adding	nothing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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