Test 4 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…

What would have happened if Alice had kept holding the fan?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: happen, keep, hold · To what, where: fan

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 kept	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fan	det
11	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Alice		tree rules
3	hold	gerund	Alice not said here	the fan	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Theme

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

She would be smaller

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 smaller	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smaller	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 smaller	cop
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	She					small property	tree rules

Option 2

She would have grown

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 grown	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would · perfect	She						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She would have fallen into the sea

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 fallen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fallen	aux
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would · perfect	She					into the sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She might have shrunk away altogether

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 shrunk	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shrunk	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shrunk	aux
4	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 shrunk	advmod
6	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	4 shrunk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink away	might · perfect	She					altogether, away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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