Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…
★★★ The voices said "I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other". How many ladders were there?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Bill, many ladders · What happens: say, have, not bring, get, be · To what, where: other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 17 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ The voices said "I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 voices | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voices | det |
| 5 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bring | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 bring | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 16 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 got | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 got | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ★ ★ the voices | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | ★ ★ the voices = ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not bring in a quote | to-infinitive | ★ ★ the voices = ★ not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · passive | Bill | the other | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |
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: How many ladders were there?
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 ladders | amod |
| 3 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | many ladders | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
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.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Three ladders in total
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 ladders | nummod |
| 2 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 total | case |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ladders | nmod |
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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