Test 6 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

True or false: the Caucus-race had a clear start and a clear finish line.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Caucus race · What happens: have · To what, where: clear start

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 race	det
6	Caucus	Caucus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 race	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Caucus	punct
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 start	det
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 start	amod
12	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 line	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 line	det
15	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 line	amod
16	finish	finish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 line	compound
17	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 start	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Caucus race	a clear start and a clear finish line					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient

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

False: nobody knew when it began or ended for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 began	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 ended	cc
9	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 sure	case
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know	past	nobody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	begin	past	it		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	end	past	nobody not said here	for sure	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

True: the Dodo blew a whistle at the start and at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Dodo	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dodo	det
4	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whistle	det
7	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 start	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 start	det
10	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 end	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 start	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the True Dodo	a whistle		the start and the end			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient

Option 3

True: they ran a clear race round the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 race	det
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 race	amod
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obj
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 pool	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pool	det
10	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	they	True		the pool			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent race=Theme round pool=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

False: they started when they liked, and the Dodo just stopped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 started	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 started	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 liked	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
7	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 started	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stopped	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dodo	det
11	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 stopped	advmod
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 started	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	start	past	they		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	like	past	they		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	stop	past	the Dodo	it	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

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