Test 5 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears…

Grandpa, Black Country: "Her's bostin', that Alice, but her talks too much about that cat." ("bostin'" = great.) What does Alice keep doing to the Mouse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: talk, keep, do · To what, where: much

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Grandpa, Black Country: "Her's bostin', that Alice, but her talks too much about that cat."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Country	punct
3	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Country	compound
4	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandpa	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 bostin	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bostin	punct
7	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bostin	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Her	case
9	bostin	bostin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandpa	appos
10	',	',	PUNCT	_	9 bostin	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 Alice	mark
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bostin	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 talks	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 talks	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 talks	nmod:poss
16	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Alice	acl:relcl
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 talks	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 cat	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 much	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Alice	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bostin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	present	Alice not said here	much				about that cat	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: ("bostin'" = great.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 great	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bostin	punct
3	bostin	bostin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 great	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 bostin	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bostin	punct
6	=	=	SYM	_	7 great	punct
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 great	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 great	punct

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

Sentence 3: What does Alice keep doing to the Mouse?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 keep	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Mouse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mouse	det
8	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	Alice						tree rules
2	do	gerund	Alice not said here					to the Mouse	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Upsetting it by repeatedly talking about cats, dogs, mice and the sea in the pool

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upsetting	upset	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Upsetting	obj
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 talking	mark
4	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	5 talking	advmod
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Upsetting	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 cats	case
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dogs	punct
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cats	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mice	punct
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cats	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sea	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cats	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pool	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pool	det
17	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	upset	gerund		it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
2	talk	gerund				the pool		about cats and dogs and mice and the sea; repeatedly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Upsetting it by talking about cats and dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upsetting	upset	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Upsetting	obj
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 talking	mark
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Upsetting	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talking	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dogs	cc
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	upset	gerund		it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
2	talk	gerund						about cats and dogs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

Option 3

Upsetting it by talking about cats and dogs and making it swim away each time

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upsetting	upset	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Upsetting	obj
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 talking	mark
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Upsetting	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talking	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dogs	cc
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cats	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 making	cc
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 talking	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 making	obj
12	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 making	xcomp
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 swim	advmod
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swim	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	upset	gerund	it			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
2	talk	gerund			about cats and dogs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic
3	make	gerund	it			tree rules
4	swim away	infinitive		time	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Frightening it by singing about mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frightening	frighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Frightening	obj
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 singing	mark
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Frightening	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 mice	case
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	gerund		it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
2	sing speech: express	gerund						about mice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about mouse=Location

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