Test 7 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…
Why does nobody move when the Queen orders Alice's head off?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, Queen · What happens: move, order off · To what, where: head
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 move | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | aux |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 move | nsubj |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 orders | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 orders | nsubj |
| 8 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | advcl |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Alice | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 orders | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 orders | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · do-support | nobody | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | order off | present | the Queen | Alice's head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 · ← Mova's choice
Alice is full-sized now and has told the soldiers that the Queen cannot harm her
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sized | aux:pass |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sized | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
| 5 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sized | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sized | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldiers | det |
| 11 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 harm | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 harm | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 harm | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 harm | advmod |
| 17 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | size | present · passive | Alice | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | the soldiers | Queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient soldier=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not harm | can | the Queen | the soldiers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer |
Option 2
Alice is now quite big again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 big | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 big | advmod |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice | now; again | big property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Alice is full-sized now and has seen they are «nothing but a pack of cards»
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sized | aux:pass |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sized | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
| 5 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sized | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seen | cc |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sized | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 nothing | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nothing | cop |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 nothing | punct |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 seen | parataxis |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 pack | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pack | det |
| 16 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cards | case |
| 18 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pack | nmod |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | size | present · passive | Alice | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | they | nothing | tree rules |
Option 4
The soldiers are too tired now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 tired | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the soldiers | now | tired property | tree rules |
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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