Test 11 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…
Looking back: in part 2, Alice liked "pretending to be two people". What is she unsure of now?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, like, pretend, be · To what, where: two people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Looking back: in part 2, Alice liked "pretending to be two people".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 liked | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 part | case |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 part | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 liked | nsubj |
| 9 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pretending | punct |
| 11 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 liked | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 people | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 people | cop |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 people | nummod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pretending | xcomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pretending | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 liked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Alice not said here | in part | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | past | Alice | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | pretend in a quote | gerund | Alice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | two people | tree rules |
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: What is she unsure of now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 unsure | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unsure | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unsure | nsubj |
| 4 | unsure | unsure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 now | case |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 unsure | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 unsure | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | unsure property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Whether she is even one person, herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 person | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 person | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 person | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 person | nummod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 person | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | she | one person | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Whether she is still herself at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 herself | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 herself | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 herself | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 herself | advmod |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 herself | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | she | herself = she | all | still | tree rules |
Option 3
Who she is.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Who | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Who | cop |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | she | tree rules |
Option 4
Whether she is her sister today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 sister | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sister | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | she | her sister | today | 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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