Test 14 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

Looking back: in chapter IV, stuck in the Rabbit's house, what did Alice say about a book?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, say · To what, where: chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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	root	root
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	1 Looking	obl
6	IV	IV	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chapter	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rabbit	det
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Rabbit	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chapter	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 book	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 book	det
21	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Alice	chapter				about a book	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

«There ought to be a book written about me»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 ought	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ought	expl
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 book	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 book	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ought	xcomp
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 book	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 written	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 book	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a book					tree rules
2	write in a quote	participle		a book not said here				about me	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about i=Topic

Option 2

«I must write a book myself»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 write	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 write	aux
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 write	obj
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 write	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write in a quote	must	I	a book				myself obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

«A book would help me here»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 help	advmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help in a quote	would	a book		me	here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

Option 4

«There ought to be a book written about me, and the Rabbit should be the one to write it»

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 ought	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ought	expl
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 book	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 book	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ought	xcomp
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 book	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 written	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 one	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Rabbit	det
14	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 one	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 one	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	appos
19	to	to	PART	_	20 write	mark
20	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 one	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 write	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a book		tree rules
2	write in a quote	participle		a book not said here	about me	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about i=Topic
3	is a in a quote	should	the Rabbit	the one		tree rules
4	write in a quote	to-infinitive		Rabbit		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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