Test 16 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

★★★ Alice thought the Mouse had got "to the fifth bend" of its tale. What was she really looking at?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Mouse · What happens: think, get, tell, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Alice thought the Mouse had got "to the fifth bend" of its tale.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Alice	case
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
5	thought	think	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	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 thought	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 bend	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bend	det
13	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bend	amod
14	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bend	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tale	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tale	nmod:poss
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bend	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	★ ★ Alice		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	past · perfect	the Mouse	to the fifth bend of Mouse's tale result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bend=Result
3	tell		Mouse		nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 was she really looking at?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 looking	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 looking	advmod
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	5 looking	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	★						vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute

The options

Option 1

The bends in the Mouse's long tail, which it was waving about in the pool

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bends	det
2	bends	bend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waving	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 tail	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mouse	det
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mouse	case
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	amod
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bends	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waving	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 waving	nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waving	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 waving	aux
13	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 pool	case
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pool	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pool	det
17	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past · progressive	the bends in the Mouse's long tail					about the pool	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about pool=Location

Option 2

The waves in the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pool	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pool	det
5	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waves	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bends in its long tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bends	det
2	bends	bend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 tail	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tail	amod
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bends	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The curves of a sad tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 curves	det
2	curves	curve	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 tale	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tale	det
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 curves	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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