Test 5 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence…

«Important — unimportant — unimportant — important.» What does this show about the King?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this · What happens: show

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: «Important — unimportant — unimportant — important.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Important	punct
2	Important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 unimportant	punct
4	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Important	conj
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 unimportant	punct
6	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Important	conj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 important	punct
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Important	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Important	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Important	punct

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

Sentence 2: What does this show about the King?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 show	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this					about the King	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Recipient about king=Topic

The options

Option 1

He cares how a word sounds more than what it means, which makes all the court laugh at him

The tree, 19 words

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	2 cares	nsubj
2	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sounds	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	nsubj
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cares	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sounds	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 means	mark
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 means	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 more	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 makes	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 makes	nsubj
14	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cares	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 court	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 court	det
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laugh	compound
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 makes	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	care	present	He			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	sound	present	a word	more		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
3	mean	present	word			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	make	present				tree rules
5	laugh	infinitive			at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He likes long words more than short ones

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	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 likes	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 likes	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	He	long words					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He cares how a word sounds more than what it means

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	2 cares	nsubj
2	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sounds	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	nsubj
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cares	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sounds	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 more	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	care	present	He		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	sound	present	a word	more	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
3	mean	present	word		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He cares how a word sounds more than what it means, and he is always ready to change his mind

The tree, 20 words

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	2 cares	nsubj
2	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sounds	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	nsubj
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cares	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sounds	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 means	mark
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 means	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 more	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ready	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ready	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ready	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ready	cop
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 ready	advmod
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cares	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 change	mark
19	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ready	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mind	nmod:poss
21	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	care	present	He			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	sound	present	a word	more		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
3	mean	present	word			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	is	present	he		always, ready property	tree rules
5	change	to-infinitive	he not said here	his mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
6	mind		his = he			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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