Test 16 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the Whit…
★★★ "I'm grown up now," Alice says. What are the two meanings of "grown up" in her joke?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, two meanings, ★ · What happens: grow up, say, be, joke · To what, where: ★ ★ ★, two meanings, joke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★★ 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: ★★★ "I'm grown up now," Alice says.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grown | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 grown | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grown | aux |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ★ | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 grown | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 12 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up in a quote | present · passive | ★ ★ ★ = ★ | ★ ★ ★ not said here | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ★=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | ★ ★ ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What are the two meanings of "grown up" in her joke?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meanings | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 meanings | nummod |
| 5 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 grown | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 grown | punct |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 meanings | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grown | compound:prt |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 grown | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 joke | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 joke | nmod:poss |
| 13 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grown | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the two meanings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow up in a quote | participle | the two meanings not said here | ★'s joke | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joke=Location | ||||
| 3 | joke | ★ | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Grown big in size, and become an adult, which she has done several times now in Wonderland
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 become | nsubj |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grown | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 size | case |
| 4 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 big | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 become | cc |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 done | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 adult | acl:relcl |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 done | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 done | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Wonderland | case |
| 19 | Wonderland | Wonderland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 done | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | become | infinitive | a adult | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | adult | a adult | Wonderland | now; time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Grown big in size, and become an adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 become | nsubj |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grown | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 size | case |
| 4 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 big | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 become | cc |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | become | infinitive | a adult | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Taller in height and older in mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 height | case |
| 3 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taller | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 older | cc |
| 5 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Taller | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taller | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Grown big in size, and become an adult, and also grown tired of the Rabbit's silly house
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 grown | advcl |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grown | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 size | case |
| 4 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 big | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 become | cc |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Grown | advcl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grown | cc |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 grown | advmod |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grown | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Rabbit | det |
| 17 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Rabbit | case |
| 19 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | become | infinitive | a adult | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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