Test 13 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

Looking back: in chapter I, what did Alice think «the use of a book» was without?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, think, use · To what, where: chapter, book

This is test 13 · ★★★ 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chapter	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 think	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 think	aux
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chapter	parataxis
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 use	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 without	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 book	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 book	det
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 without	cop
20	without	without	ADP	_	11 think	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past · do-support	Alice	chapter	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	use in a quote			a book	nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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

«Pictures or conversations» and her own adventures are full of conversations with talking animals and cards

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Pictures	punct
2	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 full	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 conversations	cc
4	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Pictures	conj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Pictures	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 adventures	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 adventures	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 adventures	amod
9	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Pictures	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 full	cop
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 conversations	case
13	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 full	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 animals	case
15	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 conversations	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cards	cc
18	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 animals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pictures or conversations and her own adventures	of conversations with talking animals and cards; full property	tree rules
2	talk	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	adventure		her = she		nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

«Stories» and nothing else at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Stories	punct
2	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Stories	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nothing	cc
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Stories	conj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod

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

Option 3

«Sums or lessons» she thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Sums	punct
2	Sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thought	obl
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 lessons	cc
4	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Sums	conj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Sums	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she	Sums or lessons					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«Pictures or conversations» — and her own adventures are full of conversations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Pictures	punct
2	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 full	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 conversations	cc
4	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Pictures	conj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Pictures	punct
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 Pictures	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 adventures	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 adventures	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 adventures	amod
10	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Pictures	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 full	cop
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 conversations	case
14	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pictures or conversations and her own adventures					of conversations; full property	tree rules
2	adventure		her = she						nom adventure «act 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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