Test 10 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

Why does the sister «half believe herself in Wonderland»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, believe · To what, where: sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 24 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 believe	compound
7	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sister	parataxis
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 believe	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Wonderland	case
10	Wonderland	Wonderland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 herself	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the sister					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality
2	believe in a quote	present							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

She closes her eyes, thinking of Alice's story, and dreams it too

The tree, 13 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	2 closes	nsubj
2	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 closes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 closes	advcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 story	case
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 story	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Alice	case
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dreams	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dreams	cc
13	dreams	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 closes	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dreams	obj
15	too	too	ADV	_	13 dreams	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	present	She	her eyes		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	think speech: other	gerund	She not said here		of Alice's story	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dream	present		story		vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

She is dreaming

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	3 dreaming	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dreaming	aux
3	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	present · progressive	She						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She reads Alice's book again

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	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 book	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Alice	case
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 reads	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	She	Alice's book			again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 4

She sleeps in the sun

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	2 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	She			the sun			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location

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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