Test 8 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

Why is it funny that the young Crab snaps at her mother right after the "never lose your temper" advice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, young Crab, your · What happens: be, snap, not lose, temper · To what, where: temper

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 snaps	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Crab	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Crab	amod
8	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 snaps	nsubj
9	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 mother	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snaps	obl
13	right	right	ADV	_	22 advice	advmod
14	after	after	ADP	_	22 advice	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 advice	det
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lose	punct
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 lose	advmod
18	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 advice	compound
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 temper	nmod:poss
20	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lose	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lose	punct
22	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snaps	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			funny property	tree rules
2	snap	present	the young Crab		after the lose advice	at Crab's mother	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mother=Location
3	not lose in a quote	infinitive		your temper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
4	temper in a quote		your				nom temper «feeling transitive»: 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.

The options

Option 1

She did not hear the advice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 advice	det
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	She	the advice					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer advice=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She loses her temper at once, even though she was told never to lose it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 temper	nmod:poss
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 loses	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 told	advmod
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 loses	parataxis
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 lose	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lose	mark
15	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	present	She	her temper	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		she	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	temper	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	temper		her = she		nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She loses her temper at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 temper	nmod:poss
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 loses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	She	her temper					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	temper		her = she						nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

She loses her temper at once and then blames her mother for the whole party

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 temper	nmod:poss
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 loses	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blames	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 blames	advmod
9	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loses	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blames	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 party	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 party	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 party	amod
15	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blames	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	She	her temper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	blame	present	She not said here	her mother	then	for the whole party	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent mother=Theme for party=Attribute
3	temper		her = she				nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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