Test 20 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…
★★★ The sister's dream turns Wonderland noises back into real ones. Which pair is NOT one of them?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Wonderland, sister, pair · What happens: turn, noise back, dream, not be · To what, where: one
This is test 20 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ The sister's dream turns Wonderland noises back into real ones.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 7 dream | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sister | det |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dream | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Wonderland | Wonderland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 noises | nsubj |
| 10 | noises | noise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | ccomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 noises | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 ones | case |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 noises | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | noise back | present | Wonderland | into real ones | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dream | the sister | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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: Which pair is NOT one of them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 4 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | which pair | one | of them = they | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Rattling teacups into sheep-bells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rattling | rattle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | teacups | teacup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rattling | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bells | case |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bells | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sheep | punct |
| 6 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rattling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | gerund | teacups | sheep bells | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent teacup=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Sobs into cattle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 cattle | case |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sobs | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Hatter's riddle into a bird singing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hatter | det |
| 2 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hatter | case |
| 4 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 bird | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 riddle | nmod |
| 8 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 riddle | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | the Hatter's riddle into a bird not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | riddle | the Hatter | into a bird | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent into=obl |
Option 4
Queen's voice into shepherd's voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Queen | case |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 5 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 shepherd | case |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 voice | nmod |
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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