Test 10 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

Why is "Everybody has won" a funny answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Everybody · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 won	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 won	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct
4	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 won	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 won	aux
6	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	amod
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · perfect	Everybody					win 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In a real race there is a winner, but this one had no rules

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 race	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 race	det
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 race	amod
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 winner	det
8	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 is	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 rules	det
15	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a winner			a real race; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Location
2	have	past	this one	no rules					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

Option 2

In a real race there is a winner, a finish line and a prize, but this one had no rules at all

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 race	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 race	det
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 race	amod
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 winner	det
8	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 line	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 line	det
11	finish	finish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 line	compound
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winner	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 prize	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 prize	det
15	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winner	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 is	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 rules	det
22	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	a winner and a finish line and a prize			a real race; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Location
2	have	past	this one	no rules		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

Option 3

Because all the animals were too wet to run properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 wet	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 animals	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wet	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 wet	advmod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 run	mark
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wet	xcomp
10	properly	properly	ADV	_	9 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all animals					wet property	tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	all animals not said here					properly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Because nobody ran fast enough to win the prize for once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 ran	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ran	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 win	mark
7	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ran	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prize	det
9	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 win	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	nobody					enough, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	win	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	the prize					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for once=Beneficiary

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