Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…

Looking back to chapter I: what was Alice's reasoning about the EAT ME cake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: look back, chapter, be, eat · To what, where: reasoning, ME

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 reasoning	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chapter	mark
4	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 chapter	nsubj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 reasoning	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 reasoning	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reasoning	cop
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reasoning	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Alice	case
11	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 EAT	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 EAT	det
14	EAT	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 reasoning	parataxis
15	ME	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 EAT	obj
16	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 EAT	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 reasoning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	chapter		I		tree rules
3	is a	past		Alice's reasoning	tree rules
4	eat	infinitive		ME	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Larger or smaller, either way she would reach the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 way	amod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 smaller	cc
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Larger	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Larger	punct
5	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obl:unmarked
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reach	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 reach	aux
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would	she	either Larger way					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme

Option 2

Whether bigger or smaller, she would still get lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	2 bigger	mark
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 smaller	cc
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 bigger	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bigger	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 lost	advmod
9	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bigger	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would · passive		she			still		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

She thought the cake would make her big

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cake	det
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 big	nmod:poss
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	would	the cake					big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

Option 4

Whichever size she became, she would never reach the garden because the door was locked and too far

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whichever	whichever	DET	PronType=Rel	2 size	det
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reach	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reach	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 reach	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 reach	advmod
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 became	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 locked	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 locked	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 locked	aux:pass
16	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 reach	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 far	cc
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 locked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	become	past	whichever size		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not reach	would	size	the garden	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
3	lock	past · passive		the door	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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