Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Books / Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part… / t11

Test 11 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

Looking back: the Mouse reads about William the Conqueror. What did Alice once guess about the Mouse and William?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mouse · What happens: look back, read, do, guess · To what, where: Alice

This is test 11 · ★★ 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: Looking back: the Mouse reads about William the Conqueror.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reads	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mouse	det
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reads	nsubj
6	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 William	case
8	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reads	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Conqueror	det
10	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 William	appos
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Mouse not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	read	present	the Mouse					about William	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about william=Topic

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: What did Alice once guess about the Mouse and William?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Mouse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mouse	det
8	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 William	cc
10	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mouse	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Alice					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alice=Eventuality
2	guess	present						about the Mouse and William; once property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

That it came over with him as a French mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 came	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 mouse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouse	det
9	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mouse	amod
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come over	past	That					with him = he; as a French mouse; over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

That it was a loyal servant of the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 servant	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 servant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 servant	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 servant	det
5	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 servant	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a loyal servant				of the king	tree rules

Option 3

That it had come over in a ship with the Conqueror and sailed the Channel

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 come	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ship	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Conqueror	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Conqueror	det
11	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ship	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sailed	cc
13	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Channel	det
15	Channel	Channel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sailed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come over	past · perfect	That			a ship with the Conqueror		over property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ship=Location
2	sail	past	That not said here	the Channel					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That it had once been the Conqueror's cat, and then it turned into a mouse

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cat	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cat	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cat	aux
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 cat	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 cat	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Conqueror	det
7	Conqueror	Conqueror	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Conqueror	case
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 turned	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cat	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 mouse	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mouse	det
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	That	the Conqueror's cat				once property	tree rules
2	turn	past	cat				then	into a mouse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mouse=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/t11/