Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Books / Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part… / t12

Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

Looking back: Alice has been nine feet tall and a few inches tall. How does she seem now, chatting on the bank with the animals?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, be, seem, chat · To what, where: few inches, bank

This is test 12 · ★★ 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: Alice has been nine feet tall and a few inches tall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tall	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tall	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tall	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 tall	cop
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 feet	nummod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tall	obl:unmarked
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tall	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 inches	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 inches	amod
13	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tall	obl:unmarked
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tall	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Alice not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present · perfect	Alice					nine feet obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
3	be		Alice not said here	a few inches					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: How does she seem now, chatting on the bank with the animals?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 seem	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seem	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seem	nsubj
4	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seem	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chatting	punct
7	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 seem	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bank	det
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chatting	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 animals	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 animals	det
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chatting	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present · do-support	Alice				now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	chat speech: other	gerund	Alice not said here			the bank		with the animals	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with animal=Co-Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Still nine feet tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Still	still	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 feet	nummod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tall	obl:unmarked
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Big enough to frighten the Lory away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Big	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 frighten	mark
4	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Big	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lory	det
6	Lory	Lory	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 frighten	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 frighten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten away	to-infinitive		the Lory				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lory=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Small enough to argue with a Lory as an equal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 argue	nsubj
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Small	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 argue	mark
4	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Lory	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Lory	det
7	Lory	Lory	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 argue	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 equal	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 equal	det
10	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	Small					with a Lory; as a equal	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lory=Co-Agent

Option 4

Grown back to her normal size again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Grown	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 size	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 size	nmod:poss
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 size	amod
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grown	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	1 Grown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	participle					again	to her normal size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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/t12/