Test 4 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

What would have happened if Alice had stayed ten inches high and still had the key?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: happen, stay, have · To what, where: key

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stayed	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stayed	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stayed	aux
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 inches	nummod
10	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	obl:unmarked
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stayed	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 key	det
16	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Alice			high property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past		the key	still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient

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

She could leave.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	could	She						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She could have reached the garden door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	could · perfect	She	the garden door					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She could have gone through the little door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	could · perfect	She			the little door			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location

Option 4

She would have been in the garden now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 garden	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 garden	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 garden	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 garden	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 garden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	She			the garden	now		tree rules

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