Test 11 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

Looking back to chapter II: what did the Mouse promise on the shore, and did it keep the promise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, keep · To what, where: chapter, promise

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 keep	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chapter	mark
4	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	4 chapter	flat
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 promise	det
10	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 promise	compound
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shore	det
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 promise	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	obj
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 promise	det
21	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		chapter					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	keep	past · do-support	Looking	the promise					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

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

To sing a song; it sang and then rested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sing	mark
2	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sang	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sing	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rested	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 rested	advmod
10	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	song not said here	a song		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rest	past	song not said here		then	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To talk; it did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 talk	mark
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To tell its tale; it left early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tale	nmod:poss
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		its tale		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave	past	tale		early property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell		its = it			nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To tell its history; it began but walked off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 history	nmod:poss
4	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
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	2 tell	advcl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 walked	cc
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 walked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		its history	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Recipient
2	begin	past	history		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	walk off	past	history not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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