Test 15 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the Whit…
★★★ First snatch: "a little shriek". Second snatch: "two little shrieks". How many shrieks did Alice hear altogether?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many shrieks · What happens: hear
This is test 15 · ★★ 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: ★★★ First snatch: "a little shriek".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 snatch | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snatch | compound |
| 4 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 snatch | amod |
| 5 | snatch | snatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 shriek | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shriek | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shriek | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shriek | amod |
| 10 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snatch | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shriek | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 snatch | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Second snatch: "two little shrieks".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 snatch | amod |
| 2 | snatch | snatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 shrieks | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shrieks | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 shrieks | nummod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shrieks | amod |
| 7 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 snatch | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shrieks | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snatch | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: How many shrieks did Alice hear altogether?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shrieks | amod |
| 3 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 6 hear | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | many shrieks | altogether property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Five shrieks in all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shrieks | nummod |
| 2 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 shrieks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Eleven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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