Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the Whit…

Why does Alice think there must be a lot of cucumber-frames?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, lot · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 be	expl
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 be	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 frames	case
11	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frames	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cucumber	punct
13	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lot	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	Alice						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	must	a lot of cucumber frames			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Glass fell after the shrieks each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 shrieks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shrieks	det
5	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Glass				after the shrieks; time		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She hears birds

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 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	She	birds					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She hears broken glass after both snatches

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 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 glass	amod
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hears	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 snatches	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 snatches	det
7	snatches	snatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	She	broken glass			after both snatches		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She sees cucumbers

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 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	She	cucumbers					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cucumber=Stimulus

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