Test 6 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence…

Why does it «not matter a bit» to Alice what the jury writes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, jury · What happens: not matter, write · To what, where: bit, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 matter	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 matter	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 matter	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matter	obl:unmarked
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Alice	case
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 matter	obl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 writes	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jury	det
14	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 writes	nsubj
15	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	it	a bit	Alice				tree rules
2	write	present	the jury						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice

No reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

They are silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 silly	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 silly	cop
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					silly property	tree rules

Option 3

The verdict is already written down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 verdict	det
2	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux:pass
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 written	advmod
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 written	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	present · passive		the verdict					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their notes are nonsense anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 notes	nmod:poss
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nonsense	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nonsense	cop
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 nonsense	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Their notes	nonsense				anyway property	tree rules
2	note		Their = they						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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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