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Test 18 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence…

★★★ A strange letter: «not directed», «not in the prisoner's handwriting», «no name signed». How many of these three facts are real evidence that the Knave wrote it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, prisoner, many, Knave · What happens: ★, not direct, sign, handwrite, be, write · To what, where: strange letter, name, real evidence, evidence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ A strange letter: «not directed», «not in the prisoner's handwriting», «no name signed».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 letter	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 letter	amod
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 directed	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 directed	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 directed	advmod
10	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ★	parataxis
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 directed	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 handwriting	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 handwriting	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 handwriting	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 handwriting	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prisoner	det
17	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 handwriting	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 prisoner	case
19	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 handwriting	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 name	det
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	parataxis
25	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 name	acl
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 signed	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	present	★	a strange letter					tree rules
2	not direct in a quote	participle							vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sign in a quote	participle		no name not said here					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	handwrite in a quote		the prisoner						nom handwriting «communication 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.

Sentence 2: How many of these three facts are real evidence that the Knave wrote it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 evidence	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 facts	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 facts	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 facts	nummod
6	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 many	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 evidence	cop
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 evidence	amod
9	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 wrote	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Knave	det
12	Knave	Knave	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wrote	nsubj
13	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 evidence	acl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wrote	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 evidence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	many of this three facts	real evidence					tree rules
2	write	past	the Knave	evidence					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1

All three of them, since each one proves something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 proves	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 three	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proves	punct
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 proves	mark
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 proves	nsubj
9	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	all three of them	something					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

None of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod

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

Option 3

Two of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Two	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Two of them are real evidence, the third is not, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 evidence	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Two	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evidence	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evidence	amod
6	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 evidence	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 third	det
9	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evidence	acl
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 is	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evidence	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Two of them	real evidence					tree rules
2	not be	present	the third	real evidence not said here					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evidence=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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