Test 14 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

★★★ Alice says "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen". If each answer goes up by one, what does she get for four times twelve, where the old times tables stopped?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, four times, answer, times tables · What happens: say, be, go up, get, stop · To what, where: five twelve, twelve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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: ★★★ Alice says "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Alice	case
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 twelve	punct
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 twelve	nsubj
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 twelve	compound
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 twelve	cop
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thirteen	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thirteen	cc
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	nummod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thirteen	nsubj
16	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	compound
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thirteen	cop
18	thirteen	thirteen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 thirteen	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★ ★ Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	four times	five twelve		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	four times		thirteen property	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: If each answer goes up by one, what does she get for four times twelve, where the old times tables stopped?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 goes	mark
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 get	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 goes	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 get	obj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 times	case
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	nummod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 twelve	obl
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 get	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 stopped	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 times	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 times	amod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tables	compound
22	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 get	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up a condition, not said to happen	present	each answer		by one	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	get	present · do-support	answer	twelve		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary twelve=Theme
3	stop	participle	times tables			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Sixteen, as the table went on rising by one each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 went	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 rising	mark
8	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 rising	obl
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the table	Sixteen					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	gerund	the table not said here					by one each time	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by one=Location

Option 3

Twenty-four, as any sensible table would say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 say	mark
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 table	det
7	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 table	amod
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Twenty	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	any sensible table						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nineteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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