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Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

Looking back: Alice wanted the Mouse to come back in the pool too. What did she say then to make it return?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, Mouse · What happens: look back, want, come back, say, make, return · To what, where: Mouse, pool · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: Alice wanted the Mouse to come back in the pool too.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wanted	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mouse	det
7	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 come	mark
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pool	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pool	det
13	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	too	too	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Alice not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	want	past	Alice	the Mouse					tree rules
3	come back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here			the pool			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What did she say then to make it return?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 say	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Alice				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Mouse					tree rules
3	return	infinitive	Mouse not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

That they would speak of nothing sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 speak	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 speak	obl
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	would	That					of nothing	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

That they would not talk about cats or dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 talk	obl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 cats	case
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 dogs	cc
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	would	they	That				about cats or dogs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

Option 3

That they would only talk of birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 talk	obl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl

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

Option 4

That they would not talk about cats or dogs, and she would never again mention Dinah

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 talk	obl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 cats	case
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 dogs	cc
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cats	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mention	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mention	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mention	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 mention	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 again	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	16 mention	advmod
16	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talk	conj
17	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mention	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	would	they	That				about cats or dogs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic
2	mention speech: other	would	she	Dinah			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dinah=Topic

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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