Test 13 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence…

Alice says «It proves nothing of the sort!» What gives her the courage now?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, It · What happens: say, prove, give · To what, where: nothing, courage, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 23 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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

Sentence 1: Alice says «It proves nothing of the sort!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 proves	punct
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proves	nsubj
5	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 proves	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sort	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sort	det
9	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	nmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 proves	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 proves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	prove in a quote	present	It	nothing					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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.

Sentence 2: What gives her the courage now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 courage	det
5	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 gives	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present		the courage	Alice		now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient courage=Theme

The options

Option 1

She has been growing and is now so big she is not afraid of anyone, and sees the reasoning is nonsense

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 growing	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 growing	aux
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 nonsense	csubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 big	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 big	cop
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 big	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 big	advmod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 growing	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 afraid	advmod
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 big	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 anyone	case
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 afraid	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sees	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sees	cc
18	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 reasoning	det
20	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sees	obj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 nonsense	cop
22	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect · progressive	She				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	She not said here		now	big property	tree rules
3	not is	present	she			of anyone; afraid property	tree rules
4	see	present	She not said here	the reasoning			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reasoning=Stimulus
5	is a	present	growing	nonsense			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She has been growing, and she sees the reasoning is nonsense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 growing	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 growing	aux
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 nonsense	csubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sees	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sees	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reasoning	det
10	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 nonsense	cop
12	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect · progressive	She		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	she	the reasoning	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reasoning=Stimulus
3	is a	present	growing	nonsense	tree rules

Option 3

She has been growing, so she is no longer afraid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 growing	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 growing	aux
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 afraid	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 afraid	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 afraid	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 afraid	cop
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 afraid	advmod
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 growing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect · progressive	She						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	she					afraid, long property	tree rules

Option 4

She has been growing for a while, and she sees at last that the whole reasoning is complete nonsense

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 growing	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 growing	aux
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 nonsense	csubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sees	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sees	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sees	nsubj
11	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sees	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 reasoning	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reasoning	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reasoning	amod
17	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 last	acl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 nonsense	cop
19	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nonsense	amod
20	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect · progressive	She		while		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	she			last property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	growing	complete nonsense			tree rules

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