Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…

What would have happened if the pebbles had stayed pebbles?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pebbles · What happens: happen, stay · To what, where: pebbles

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 stayed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pebbles	det
7	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stayed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	aux
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
10	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stayed	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the pebbles	pebbles					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pebble=Location

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

The pebbles would have rolled out the window and Alice would have been trapped in the wood with the puppy and the caterpillar

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pebbles	det
2	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rolled	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rolled	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 rolled	aux
5	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 rolled	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolled	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 trapped	cc
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 trapped	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 trapped	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 trapped	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 trapped	aux:pass
14	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rolled	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trapped	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 puppy	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 puppy	det
20	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wood	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 caterpillar	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 caterpillar	det
23	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll out	would · perfect · passive		the pebbles				the window obl	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
2	trap	would · perfect · passive		Alice		the wood with the puppy and the caterpillar			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wood=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Alice would have had no cake and stayed stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cake	det
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
9	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	Alice	no cake					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
2	stay	past	Alice not said here					stuck property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She would have kept her size and no cake

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	4 kept	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 size	nmod:poss
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cake	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cake	det
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 size	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would · perfect	She	her size and no cake					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Alice would have had no cake to eat, so she could never shrink or grow again, and would be stuck forever

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cake	det
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cake	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shrink	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 shrink	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shrink	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 shrink	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 shrink	advmod
14	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	parataxis
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 grow	cc
16	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shrink	conj
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 grow	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stuck	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stuck	cc
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 stuck	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 stuck	cop
22	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
23	forever	forever	ADV	_	22 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	Alice	no cake			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	no cake not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not shrink	could	Alice				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	grow	infinitive	Alice not said here		again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	would	Alice not said here			forever, stuck property	tree rules

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