Test 6 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…

True or false: Alice was relaxed and happy playing with the puppy.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, play

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 relaxed	punct
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 relaxed	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 relaxed	cop
7	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 happy	cc
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 relaxed	conj
10	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 happy	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 puppy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 puppy	det
13	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice	relaxed property	tree rules
2	be		Alice not said here		tree rules
3	play	gerund	Alice not said here	with the puppy	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with puppy=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

False: she was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 bored	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	cop
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 False	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					bored property	tree rules

Option 2

True: she enjoyed the game very much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 enjoyed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enjoyed	nsubj
4	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enjoyed	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	4 enjoyed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	she	the game					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus

Option 3

True: she was calm and relaxed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 calm	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	cop
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 relaxed	cc
7	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					calm property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

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

False: she was terribly frightened it might trample or eat her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux:pass
5	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 trample	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 trample	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 trample	aux
9	trample	trample	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 False	parataxis
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 eat	cc
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trample	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		she	terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	trample	might	it			tree rules
3	eat	infinitive		her = she		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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