Test 12 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

What does the ending say about growing up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ending · What happens: say, grow up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ending	det
4	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 growing	mark
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 say	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 growing	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the ending						tree rules
2	grow up	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

You can grow up and still keep a «simple and loving heart» and share stories

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grow	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 heart	det
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 heart	punct
10	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heart	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 loving	cc
12	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 simple	conj
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 share	cc
16	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	grow up	can	You			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	You not said here	a simple heart	still	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
3	share	infinitive	You not said here	stories		tree rules

Option 2

Growing up is sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sad	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Growing	compound:prt
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Growing					sad property	tree rules

Option 3

Grown-ups should never tell tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	should	Grown ups	tales					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Adults forget all their dreams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dreams	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dreams	nmod:poss
5	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Adults	Adults's dreams					tree rules
2	dream		Adults = adult						nom dream «cognition 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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