Test 10 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

Looking back to the fall: what did Alice once say she knew about the earth that she could not use?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, say, know, not use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 3 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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	11 say	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 fall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fall	det
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 use	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 use	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 use	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 use	advmod
21	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	advcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		to the fall	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fall=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support		once property	tree rules
3	know	past	Alice	about the earth	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about earth=Stimulus
4	not use	could	Alice		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Words like Mercator and Equator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 Mercator	case
3	Mercator	Mercator	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Words	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Equator	cc
5	Equator	Equator	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mercator	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Words like Latitude and Longitude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 Latitude	case
3	Latitude	Latitude	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Words	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Longitude	cc
5	Longitude	Longitude	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Latitude	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Words like Antipodes and Latitude, which she learned from a book in the library.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 learned	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 Antipodes	case
3	Antipodes	antipode	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Words	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Latitude	cc
5	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Antipodes	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 learned	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 learned	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learned	nsubj
9	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 book	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 book	det
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learned	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 library	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 library	det
15	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 book	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 learned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Words like Antipodes and Latitude			a book in the library			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Topic from book=Source

Option 4

Words like Latitude and Longitude, and the names of every country in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 Latitude	case
3	Latitude	Latitude	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Words	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Longitude	cc
5	Longitude	Longitude	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Latitude	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 names	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 names	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 names	det
9	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Words	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 country	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 names	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Europe	case
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 country	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			every country in Europe					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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