Test 3 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

Why is it funny when Alice calls herself "a great girl like you"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Alice · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 calls	advmod
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 calls	nsubj
7	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	advcl
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 calls	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 girl	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 girl	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calls	xcomp
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 girl	nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 girl	punct
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					funny property	tree rules
2	call	present	Alice	Alice					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient

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

'Great' only means excellent, but she is actually too tall to stand in the hall and that is funny.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tall	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tall	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tall	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tall	cop
11	actually	actually	ADV	_	13 tall	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 tall	advmod
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stand	mark
15	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tall	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stand	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 funny	cc
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 funny	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 funny	cop
22	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tall	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Great		excellent property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she		actually, tall property	tree rules
3	stand	to-infinitive	she not said here	the hall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
4	is	present	that		funny property	tree rules

Option 2

'Great' means clever, and she is not clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	nsubj
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clever	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 clever	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 clever	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 clever	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 clever	advmod
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Great					clever property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	she					clever property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Great" means big, and she really is nine feet tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tall	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tall	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tall	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	13 tall	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tall	cop
11	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 feet	nummod
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tall	obl:unmarked
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Great					big property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					nine feet obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules

Option 4

'Great' means big, and she really is nine feet tall, which is very funny indeed

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	nsubj
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tall	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tall	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tall	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	13 tall	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tall	cop
11	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 feet	nummod
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tall	obl:unmarked
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 funny	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 funny	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 funny	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 funny	advmod
18	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tall	conj
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 funny	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Great	big property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she	nine feet obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
3	is	present		funny, indeed property	tree rules

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