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Test 1 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

Noah goes: "The Mouse told them a scary story to warm them up." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Noah, Mouse, you · What happens: go, tell, warm up, put · To what, where: scary story, them, Mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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: Noah goes: "The Mouse told them a scary story to warm them up."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mouse	det
6	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 warm	mark
13	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warm	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 warm	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Noah						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the Mouse	a scary story	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
3	warm up in a quote	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here	them = they					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Mouse			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It told them a sad story to make them cry

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	It	a sad story	them = they				tree rules
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		them = they					tree rules
3	cry speech: express not said to happen	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It did not do that, it ran a race round the bank to get them warm again

The tree, 17 words

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	4 do	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 race	det
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obj
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 bank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ran	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	obj
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	xcomp
18	again	again	ADV	_	4 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past · do-support	It	that			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	run	past	it	a race				round the bank	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location race=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive		them = they				warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3

It read a fun joke book to warm them up

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 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 warm	mark
8	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 read	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 warm	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 warm	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	It	a fun joke book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	warm up	to-infinitive		them = they					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It read a boring history lesson to make them "dry"

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 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lesson	det
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lesson	amod
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lesson	compound
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 read	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dry	punct
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	It	a boring history lesson					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive		them = they				dry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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