Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

What would have happened if Alice had not had the box of comfits?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: happen, not have · To what, where: box

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 box	det
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 comfits	case
13	comfits	comfit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 box	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Alice	the box of comfits					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

There would have been no prizes for anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 been	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 been	aux
4	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 prizes	det
6	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 been	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 been	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would · perfect	no prizes			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Alice would have had no prize at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	Alice	no prize		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient

Option 3

There would have been no prizes for anyone, and the Dodo would have been very angry indeed with Alice

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 been	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 been	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 angry	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 prizes	det
6	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 been	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 prizes	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 angry	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 angry	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dodo	det
12	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 angry	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 angry	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 angry	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 angry	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 angry	advmod
17	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 angry	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 Alice	case
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · participle · perfect	the Dodo					with Alice; angry, indeed property	tree rules

Option 4

The party would have been a dull affair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 been	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 been	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 been	aux
5	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 affair	det
7	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 affair	amod
8	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 been	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would · perfect	the party						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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