Test 13 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

How has Alice changed since the hall, where she cried alone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: change, cry

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 changed	advmod
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 changed	nsubj
4	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	since	since	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 cried	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hall	acl:relcl
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 cried	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · perfect	Alice				since the hall		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Alice					alone property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

She now cries again whenever she is wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cries	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cries	advmod
3	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 cries	advmod
5	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 wet	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wet	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wet	cop
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cries	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	She				now; again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					wet, whenever property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She is still alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alone	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alone	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 alone	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She				still	alone property	tree rules

Option 3

She now hides in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hides	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hides	advmod
3	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	She			the hall	now		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She is now in company, talking "as if she had known them all her life"

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 company	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 company	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 company	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 company	case
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talking	punct
7	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 company	acl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 known	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 known	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 known	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 known	aux
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 talking	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 known	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 life	det:predet
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 known	obl:unmarked
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		company	now		tree rules
2	talk	gerund	company not said here					tree rules
3	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	she	them = they			her life obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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