Test 14 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…

How has Alice changed since she first met the Rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: change, meet · To what, where: Rabbit

This is test 14 · ★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 changed	advmod
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 changed	nsubj
4	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 met	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 met	advmod
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rabbit	det
10	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · perfect	Alice						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	past	Alice	the Rabbit				first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-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.

The options

Option 1

She is braver

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	3 braver	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 braver	cop
3	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					brave property	tree rules

Option 2

She has grown more polite and quiet

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	3 grown	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 polite	advmod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grown	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quiet	cc
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 polite	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect	She					polite property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She now shouts at everyone around her

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	3 shouts	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shouts	advmod
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 shouts	obl
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shouts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	She			everyone	now	around her = she	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She now stands up for herself and threatens back

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	3 stands	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stands	advmod
3	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stands	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 herself	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 stands	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threatens	cc
8	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stands	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 threatens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	present	She				now	for herself = she	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	threaten back	present	She not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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