Test 14 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…
Looking back: Alice once heard "a little pattering of feet" in the hall. Who was it then?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, hear, be · To what, where: little pattering, hall, pattering
This is test 14 · ★★ 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 once heard "a little pattering of feet" in the hall.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 heard | advmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Looking | parataxis |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pattering | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pattering | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pattering | amod |
| 10 | pattering | pattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pattering | nmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pattering | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past | Alice | a little pattering of feet | the hall | once property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pattering=Stimulus |
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: Who was it then?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Who | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Who | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pattering | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The White Rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rabbit | amod |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Dormouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dormouse | det |
| 2 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Mouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Caterpillar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caterpillar | det |
| 2 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/t14/