Test 11 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tar…

What would the King's trial be like if every witness disappeared like the cook?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witness, King · What happens: disappear, try

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trial	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 King	case
6	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	case
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 disappeared	mark
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 witness	det
11	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disappeared	nsubj
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 like	advcl
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 cook	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cook	det
15	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disappeared	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	every witness					like the cook	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try		the King						nom trial «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

It would have no witnesses at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 witnesses	det
5	witnesses	witness	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It	no witnesses		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient

Option 2

It would have no evidence at all, so it would be just like the trial we are watching now

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evidence	det
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 evidence	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trial	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	16 trial	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trial	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 trial	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 trial	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 trial	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 trial	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trial	det
16	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 watching	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 watching	aux
19	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 trial	acl:relcl
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 watching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It	no evidence	all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient
2	is	would	evidence				like the trial	tree rules
3	watch	present · progressive	we	the trial not said here		now		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Theme

Option 3

It would end at once with a sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 end	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 end	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sentence	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sentence	det
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would	It					with a sentence	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with sentence=Subeventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would have no evidence at all — just like now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evidence	det
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 evidence	nmod
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 now	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 now	case
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It	no evidence		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient

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