Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Books / Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part… / t14

Test 14 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…

Ciara from Cork: "The Mouse came back to her, grand, but sure it was pale as anything." ("grand" = fine, okay.) Why did Alice think it was pale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciara, it, Alice · What happens: come back, be, think · To what, where: Mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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: Ciara from Cork: "The Mouse came back to her, grand, but sure it was pale as anything."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ciara	Ciara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Cork	case
3	Cork	Cork	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ciara	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mouse	det
7	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grand	punct
13	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pale	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 pale	cc
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pale	amod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pale	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pale	cop
19	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	parataxis
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 anything	case
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 pale	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 pale	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back in a quote	past	Ciara from Cork		Mouse				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	past	it					as anything; pale 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: ("grand" = fine, okay.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	6 fine	punct
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grand	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 okay	punct
8	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fine	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: Why did Alice think it was pale?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pale	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pale	cop
7	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	Alice						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					pale property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pale with fright at the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 fright	case
3	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pale	nmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pale	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

From the cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 water	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

From being wet through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 wet	case
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wet	cop
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	through	through	ADV	_	3 wet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						through, wet property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

With passion, meaning strong anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	2 passion	case
2	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meaning	punct
4	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 passion	acl
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anger	amod
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meaning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund	passion not said here	strong anger					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/t14/