Test 3 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…

Why did the Rabbit's crowd go silent when Alice mentioned Dinah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: crowd, Alice · What happens: go, mention · To what, where: Dinah

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rabbit	det
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 crowd	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rabbit	case
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 mentioned	advmod
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mentioned	nsubj
11	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	advcl
12	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mentioned	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Rabbit's crowd					silent property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mention speech: other	past	Alice	Dinah					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dinah=Topic

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

They worried a dog would bite them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worried	nsubj
2	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 worried	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bite	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry	past	They						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bite	would	a dog	them = they					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

They fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	They					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They were scared the cat would attack them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attack	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 attack	aux
7	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	parataxis
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 attack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					scared property	tree rules
2	attack	would	the cat	them = they					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were afraid of a cat being set on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 set	aux:pass
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 afraid	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					afraid property	tree rules
2	set	gerund · passive	They not said here					of a cat; on them = they	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on they=Destination

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