Test 11 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…
Looking back: Alice has now been tiny twice. What shrank her the first time, back in chapter I?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, be, shrink · To what, where: Alice, chapter
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 4 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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: Looking back: Alice has now been tiny twice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tiny | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tiny | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tiny | aux |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 tiny | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tiny | cop |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 tiny | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tiny | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Alice not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | Alice | now | tiny, twice 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: What shrank her the first time, back in chapter I?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 shrank | nsubj |
| 2 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shrank | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrank | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chapter | punct |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 chapter | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 chapter | case |
| 10 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrank | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 chapter | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | past | Alice | chapter | time | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The bottle marked "DRINK ME"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bottle | acl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 DRINK | punct |
| 5 | DRINK | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 marked | xcomp |
| 6 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 DRINK | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 DRINK | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | participle | the bottle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | infinitive | ME | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The mushroom she nibbled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mushroom | det |
| 2 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nibbled | nsubj |
| 4 | nibbled | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mushroom | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nibble | past | she | the mushroom not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient |
Option 3
The small cake marked EAT ME, which she ate after the bottle marked DRINK ME
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cake | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cake | amod |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 EAT | nsubj |
| 4 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 EAT | amod |
| 5 | EAT | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 EAT | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ate | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ate | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 EAT | parataxis |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 bottle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottle | det |
| 13 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ate | obl |
| 14 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ate | conj |
| 15 | DRINK | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 EAT | conj |
| 16 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 DRINK | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | the small cake | ME | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | she | after the bottle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mark | participle | she not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | infinitive | the small cake not said here | ME | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
Option 4
The bottle marked DRINK ME, which she drank from in the long hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bottle | acl |
| 4 | DRINK | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 marked | xcomp |
| 5 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 DRINK | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drank | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 drank | nsubj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drank | nsubj |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 hall | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hall | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hall | amod |
| 14 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drank | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | participle | the bottle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | infinitive | ME | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 3 | drink | past | the bottle | the long hall | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from hall=Source |
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