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Test 9 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

Ruby, grand (fine) about it: «the cards were really leaves blowing on her face, yeah?» Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cards, leaves, Ruby · What happens: be, blow · To what, where: leaves, face

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Ruby, grand (fine) about it: «the cards were really leaves blowing on her face, yeah?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grand	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 fine	punct
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grand	conj
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 fine	punct
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grand	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 leaves	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 leaves	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cards	det
12	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 leaves	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 leaves	cop
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 leaves	advmod
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grand	parataxis
16	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 leaves	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blowing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
21	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 grand	discourse
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the cards	leaves					tree rules
2	blow in a quote	gerund	leaves not said here			Ruby's face			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Is she right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ruby					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes: it was a storm of cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 storm	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 storm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 storm	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cards	case
8	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 storm	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a storm				of cards	tree rules

Option 2

No: the cards were really only playing cards, and the leaves were blowing on the Queen's garden far away

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cards	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 cards	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cards	det
4	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 playing	aux
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 playing	advmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 playing	advmod
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blowing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blowing	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaves	det
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 blowing	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 blowing	aux
15	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 playing	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 garden	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Queen	det
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 garden	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Queen	case
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blowing	obl
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 away	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	15 blowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	no cards	cards					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
2	blow	past · progressive	the leaves			the Queen's garden		away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes: dead leaves were fluttering down from the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fluttering	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 fluttering	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	amod
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fluttering	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fluttering	aux
6	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 fluttering	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fluttering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter down	past · progressive	dead leaves			the trees		down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No: they were playing cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cards	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 playing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 playing	aux
5	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cards	amod
6	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	they						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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