Test 16 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tar…

Looking back: in chapter IV, who held up Bill the Lizard and gave him something out of a bottle?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, hold up, give · To what, where: Bill, something, bottle

This is test 16 · ★★★ 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 held	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	IV	IV	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 held	compound:prt
11	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Lizard	det
13	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bill	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 held	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 gave	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 bottle	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 bottle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bottle	det
21	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	hold up	past	Bill				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bill=Theme
3	give	past	something	Bill	a bottle		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme

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

Two white rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 rabbits	nummod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rabbits	amod
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Two guinea-pig cooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cooks	nummod
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pig	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 guinea	punct
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooks	compound
5	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The Rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rabbit	det
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Two guinea-pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pigs	nummod
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pigs	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 guinea	punct
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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