Test 8 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the…

Why does Alice look on top of the mushroom?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	4 look	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mushroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mushroom	det
9	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	Alice					on top of the mushroom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on top=Theme

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

Because the mushroom was taller than she was and she had to climb up on the stalk to be sure

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 taller	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mushroom	det
3	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taller	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	cop
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 climb	mark
13	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 climb	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 stalk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stalk	det
17	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climb	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 sure	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 sure	cop
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 climb	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mushroom		tall property	tree rules
2	be	past	she			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	she			tree rules
4	climb up	to-infinitive	she not said here	the stalk		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stalk=Trajectory
5	is	to-infinitive	she not said here		sure property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She had looked under it, beside it and behind it already

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 looked	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	aux
3	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 it	punct
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 it	cc
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 it	conj
12	already	already	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · perfect	She					beside it; under it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under it=Theme

Option 3

She wanted to see what was above

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 above	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 above	cop
7	above	above	ADV	_	4 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	She		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past		above property	tree rules

Option 4

She wanted to check the top of the caterpillar's hat

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 check	mark
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 check	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 hat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 caterpillar	det
9	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hat	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 caterpillar	case
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	check not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the top of the caterpillar's hat					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Theme

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