Test 6 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

True or false: the Mouse leaves because Alice talked about cats again.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mouse, Alice · What happens: leave, talk

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaves	advcl
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 leaves	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mouse	det
6	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	nsubj
7	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 talked	mark
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 talked	nsubj
10	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leaves	advcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 cats	case
12	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talked	obl
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 talked	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 leaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	the Mouse						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	past	Alice				again	about cats	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice

False: it leaves because Alice spoke of Dinah and the little birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 leaves	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 spoke	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	nsubj
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Dinah	case
9	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 birds	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 birds	amod
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Dinah	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	it						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	Alice					of Dinah and the little birds	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

True: it leaves because Alice talked about cats and dogs again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 leaves	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 talked	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talked	nsubj
7	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	advcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 cats	case
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dogs	cc
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cats	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	7 talked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	it						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	past	Alice				again	about cats and dogs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

Option 3

True: it leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 leaves	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	it						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

False: it leaves because she wasn't listening and said "a knot"

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 leaves	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 listening	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 listening	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 listening	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 listening	advmod
9	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 leaves	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 knot	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knot	det
14	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 knot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	present	it		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not listen	past · progressive	she		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past		a knot	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knot=Topic

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