Test 14 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tar…

Looking back: why does «Treacle» make sense coming from the Dormouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, sense · What happens: look back, treacle, make, come · To what, where: sense, Dormouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 make	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Treacle	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 Treacle	advmod
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Treacle	aux
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Treacle	punct
7	Treacle	treacle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	parataxis
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 Treacle	punct
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sense	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 Dormouse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dormouse	det
14	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund				tree rules
2	treacle in a quote	present · do-support				tree rules
3	make	present	Looking	sense		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product
4	come	gerund	sense not said here		the Dormouse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dormouse=Initial_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 · ← Mova's choice

He was at the tea-party

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	7 party	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 party	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 party	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 party	det
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 party	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tea	punct
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			the tea party			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His story at the tea-party was about sisters living on treacle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 story	nmod:poss
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sisters	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 party	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 party	det
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 party	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tea	punct
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sisters	cop
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 sisters	case
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sisters	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 treacle	case
13	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His story at the tea party					about sisters	tree rules
2	live	gerund	sisters not said here			treacle			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on treacle=Location

Option 3

He was telling a tale about the tea-party

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	3 telling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	10 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 party	det
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 party	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 tea	punct
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	He	a tale				about the tea party	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient about party=Topic

Option 4

His story was about sisters who lived in a well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 story	nmod:poss
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sisters	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sisters	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 sisters	case
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sisters	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His story					about sisters	tree rules
2	live	past	sisters			a well			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in well=Location

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