Test 13 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…

How is Alice different with the Mouse from how she was alone in the hall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: be · To what, where: hall

This is test 13 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 different	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 different	cop
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 different	nsubj
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Mouse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mouse	det
7	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 different	obl
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 alone	mark
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 alone	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 alone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 alone	cop
12	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Mouse	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alone	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 different	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Alice					with the Mouse; different property	tree rules
2	is	past	Alice			the hall		alone 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She now has company and tries hard to make a friend

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 has	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tries	cc
6	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tries	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	company	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient
2	try	present	She not said here			hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	to-infinitive	She not said here	a friend			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

Option 2

She now has company and tries hard to make a friend, though she talks rather too much about cats

The tree, 19 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	3 has	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tries	cc
6	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tries	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 talks	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 talks	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talks	nsubj
15	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 talks	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 cats	case
20	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 much	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	company	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient
2	try	present	She not said here			hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	to-infinitive	She not said here	a friend			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
4	talk	present	friend	much			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent much=Patient

Option 3

She is shy and speaks very quietly

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 shy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	cop
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 speaks	cc
5	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	conj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 quietly	advmod
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 speaks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					shy property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present	She not said here					quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She is now calmer and keeps quiet to avoid trouble

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 calmer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calmer	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 calmer	advmod
4	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keeps	cc
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calmer	conj
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeps	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 avoid	mark
9	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 quiet	advcl
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		now	calm property	tree rules
2	keep	present	She not said here			quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	avoid	to-infinitive	She not said here	trouble			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location

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