Test 9 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

What does Alice really want at the end of this part?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: want · To what, where: end

This is test 9 · ★ 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	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Alice	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 part	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 part	det
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present					at the end of this part		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

For her sister to come down and fetch her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fetch	cc
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	to-infinitive	her sister					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive	her sister not said here	sister					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

For someone to bring her a tiny cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 bring	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 bring	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bring	mark
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cake	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cake	amod
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	to-infinitive	someone	a tiny cake	her = she				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination cake=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

For people to put their heads down and call her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 put	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 put	mark
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 call	cc
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put down	to-infinitive	people	people's heads				down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
2	call	infinitive	people not said here		her = she				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 4

To be bigger.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 bigger	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 bigger	cop
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bigger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						big property	tree rules

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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