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Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

★★★ "I had not!" and "A knot!" sound the same. Which pair below also sound the same but mean different things, like tale and tail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, ★ ★ ★, pair · What happens: not have, sound, mean · To what, where: ★ ★ ★, same, different things

This is test 17 · ★★ 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: ★★★ "I had not!" and "A knot!" sound the same.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sound	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ★	acl:relcl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 had	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knot	cc
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 knot	punct
12	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 knot	det
13	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 knot	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 knot	punct
16	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 same	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sound	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	past	I	★ ★ ★ and a knot not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ★=Patient
2	sound	present	★ ★ ★ and a knot	the same					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=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.

Sentence 2: Which pair below also sound the same but mean different things, like tale and tail?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nsubj
3	below	below	ADV	_	2 pair	advmod
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 sound	advmod
5	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 mean	cc
9	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	conj
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mean	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tale	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 tale	case
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 things	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tail	cc
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tale	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	which pair	the same					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme
2	mean	present	which pair not said here	different things					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bat, bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bat	punct
3	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bat	conj

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

Option 2

Right and write

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	3 write	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 write	cc
3	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here					right property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Night and knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 knight	cc
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Night	conj

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

Option 4

Sea and see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 see	cc
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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