Test 3 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…

Why is it funny that Alice says "O Mouse!"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, Alice · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 says	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Mouse	punct
9	O	o	INTJ	_	10 Mouse	discourse
10	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Mouse	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Mouse	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					funny property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 uses an old school-book way of speaking to a mouse

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 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 school	punct
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	compound
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 speaking	mark
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 way	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mouse	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mouse	det
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	She	a old book way					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	speak speech: other	gerund	a old book way not said here					to a mouse	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mouse=Co-Agent

Option 2

It sounds like a question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 question	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It					like a question	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It is a rude word in French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 French	case
7	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rude word		French			tree rules

Option 4

She copies a phrase from her old Latin lesson book

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 copies	nsubj
2	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 phrase	det
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 book	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 book	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 book	amod
8	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 book	amod
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 book	compound
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	She	a phrase		her old Latin lesson book			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme

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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