Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

Did the Caucus-race work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Caucus race work

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
3	Caucus	Caucus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 work	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Caucus	punct
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	compound
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

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

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

No, they were still very wet at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 wet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wet	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wet	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 wet	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 wet	advmod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they				at the end; still	wet property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes: after half an hour they were all dry and the Dodo gave out the prizes from his pocket

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 dry	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 dry	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 hour	case
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 hour	det:predet
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dry	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dry	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dry	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 dry	advmod
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dodo	det
13	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dry	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 gave	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prizes	det
17	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 pocket	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pocket	nmod:poss
20	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they				hour	all, dry property	tree rules
2	give out	past	the Dodo	the prizes		Dodo's pocket			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prize=Theme

Option 3

No, not until Alice had gone back into the pool to finish dripping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 gone	advmod
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 gone	mark
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pool	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pool	det
11	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 finish	mark
13	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	advcl
14	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 finish	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not go back	past · perfect	Alice	the pool	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	finish	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	drip	gerund	Alice not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes: after half an hour they were all dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 dry	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 hour	case
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 hour	det:predet
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dry	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dry	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dry	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 dry	advmod
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they				hour	all, dry property	tree rules

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