Test 12 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

Looking back over the hall: what has Alice now been, size by size?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, have, be · To what, where: Alice, size

This is test 12 · ★ 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	8 has	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 hall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 size	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 size	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 been	punct
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 size	case
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 size	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			over the hall	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over hall=Theme
2	have	present	Alice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alice=Patient
3	is a	participle	size	now	by size	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Normal, then ten inches, then over nine feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feet	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 inches	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 inches	advmod
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 inches	nummod
5	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Normal	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Normal	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 feet	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Normal, then small, then over nine feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feet	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Normal	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feet	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 feet	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 feet	nummod
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Tall then short.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 short	advmod
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tall	conj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tall	punct

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

Option 4

Small, then normal, then nine feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feet	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 normal	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 normal	advmod
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Small	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feet	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 feet	advmod
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 feet	nummod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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