Test 16 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

★★★ Read carefully: did Alice ask "What is a Caucus-race?" because she wanted to know?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★, Alice · What happens: read, ask, be, want, know · To what, where: Caucus race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Read	nsubj
4	Read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 Read	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	aux
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ask	nsubj
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Read	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 race	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 race	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 race	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 race	det
14	Caucus	Caucus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 race	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Caucus	punct
16	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 race	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 race	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 wanted	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 know	mark
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	infinitive	★ ★		carefully property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	Alice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		a Caucus race		tree rules
4	want	past	Alice			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yes, she did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No: "not that she wanted much to know"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wanted	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wanted	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 No	ccomp
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wanted	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 know	mark
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	acl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want in a quote	past	she	much					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
2	know in a quote	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, very much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 much	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

No, she had heard it before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	she	it				before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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