Test 10 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the Whit…
Jess, rough: "Do as I tell you, you coward!" Who says this?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, you · What happens: do, tell, coward, say · To what, where: you, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» 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: Jess, rough: "Do as I tell you, you coward!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jess | Jess | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rough | punct |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Jess | conj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Do | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Do | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Jess | parataxis |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Do | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coward | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 coward | nsubj |
| 13 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Do | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | coward in a quote | you | tree rules |
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: Who says this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 says | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The Rabbit, to Pat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pat | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Pat | case |
| 5 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rabbit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Duchess, to Alice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duchess | det |
| 2 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alice | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Alice | case |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duchess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Duchess, to Pat, in the garden by the cucumber frames
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duchess | det |
| 2 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pat | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Pat | case |
| 5 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duchess | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 garden | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Duchess | appos |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 frames | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frames | det |
| 12 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 frames | compound |
| 13 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 garden | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The Rabbit, to Pat, when Pat was digging for apples
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pat | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Pat | case |
| 5 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rabbit | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 digging | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 digging | mark |
| 8 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 digging | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 digging | aux |
| 10 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Rabbit | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 apples | case |
| 12 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 digging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past · progressive | Pat | for apples | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for apple=Theme |
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