Test 8 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…
Why does Alice decide that if she is Mabel she will stay down the hole?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: decide, be, stay down · To what, where: Mabel, hole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 decide | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 decide | aux |
| 3 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 decide | nsubj |
| 4 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 Mabel | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Mabel | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Mabel | cop |
| 9 | Mabel | Mabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stay | advcl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | aux |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decide | ccomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 stay | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hole | det |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stay | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 decide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present · do-support | Alice | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | Alice | Mabel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay down | future | Alice | the hole | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hole=Location |
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
She is afraid to go up into the house
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 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | to-infinitive | She not said here | the house | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
She likes the hole
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 | 2 likes | nsubj |
| 2 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 likes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | She | the hole | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hole=Theme |
Option 3
She would rather stay below and explore the hole than go up and be taught
The tree, 15 words
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 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 4 stay | advmod |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | below | below | ADV | _ | 4 stay | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 explore | cc |
| 7 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stay | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explore | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hole | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 go | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taught | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taught | aux:pass |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stay | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | would | She | below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | explore | infinitive | She not said here | the hole | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Location | ||||
| 3 | go up | infinitive | the hole not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | infinitive · passive | She not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She does not want to live Mabel's life with lots of lessons
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 want | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | Mabel | Mabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Mabel | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 lots | case |
| 11 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lessons | case |
| 13 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | She | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | She not said here | Mabel's life | with lots of lessons | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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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