Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

Why does the Mouse's tale show that Fury's trial is unfair?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale, trial, Mouse, Fury · What happens: do, show, be, tell, try · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 show	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mouse	det
4	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tale	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Mouse	case
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	nsubj
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 unfair	mark
9	Fury	Fury	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 trial	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Fury	case
11	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unfair	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unfair	cop
13	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 show	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	the Mouse's tale not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	present	the Mouse's tale		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Fury's trial	unfair property	tree rules
4	tell		the Mouse		nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	try		Fury		nom trial «act 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

Fury will judge the case himself here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 judge	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 judge	aux
3	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 case	det
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 judge	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 judge	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 judge	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	future	Fury	the case		here			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Fury wants to be judge and jury himself, and so the Mouse can never get a fair hearing

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fury	Fury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 judge	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 judge	cop
5	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jury	cc
7	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judge	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 jury	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mouse	det
13	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 get	advmod
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hearing	det
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hearing	amod
19	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	Fury		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	to-infinitive		judge and jury Fury	tree rules
3	not get	can	the Mouse	a fair hearing	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hearing=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fury wants to be judge and jury himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fury	Fury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 judge	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 judge	cop
5	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jury	cc
7	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judge	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Fury	Fury					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		judge and jury					tree rules

Option 4

The trial has no proper judge at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trial	det
2	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 judge	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 judge	amod
6	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 judge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the trial	no proper judge		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judge=Patient

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