Test 19 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…
★★★ «I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more.» If «three or more» is exactly three, how many things were given in all?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, they, You, three · What happens: give, be · To what, where: one, her, two, ★, three, us
This is test 19 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ «I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | _ | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 gave | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 more | cc |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 three | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | ★ ★ ★ | one | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | they | two | ★ | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient two=Theme | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | You | three | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient three=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.
Sentence 2: If «three or more» is exactly three, how many things were given in all?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 three | mark |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 three | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 three | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 three | conj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 three | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 three | cop |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 three | advmod |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 given | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 things | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | three | three | exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past · passive | many things | all | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Three plus three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 3 three | cc |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Three | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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