Test 7 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence…

Why can't Rule Forty-two be «the oldest rule in the book»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not rule, be · To what, where: book, Forty oldest rule

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	4 Rule	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 Rule	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 Rule	advmod
4	Rule	rule	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rule	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Forty	conj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 rule	cop
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 rule	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rule	det
11	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 rule	amod
12	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Rule	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 book	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 book	det
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Rule	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 book	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Rule	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rule	can				the book			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	infinitive		the Forty oldest rule					tree rules

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

It was made up this very morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 morning	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 morning	advmod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		It			morning		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The oldest rule would be Number One, not Forty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rule	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 rule	amod
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Number	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 Number	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 Number	cop
6	Number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Number	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 two	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 two	advmod
10	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 two	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Forty	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 One	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	the oldest rule	Number					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The oldest rule would be Number One, not Forty-two, and Number One is in a book nobody has read

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rule	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 rule	amod
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Number	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 Number	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 Number	cop
6	Number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Number	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 two	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 two	advmod
10	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 two	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 two	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 One	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 book	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 book	cc
15	Number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 book	nsubj
16	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Number	flat
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 book	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 book	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 book	det
20	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Number	appos
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 read	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 read	aux
23	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 book	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	would	the oldest rule	Number		tree rules
2	is	present	Number		a book	tree rules
3	read	present · perfect	nobody	a book not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 4

Forty-two is far too high a number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 high	obl
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 high	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 high	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 number	det
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 high	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a number					Forty obl; far, high property	tree rules

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