Test 11 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…
Looking back to chapter II: Alice said "Who in the world am I?" in the hall. Who asks her this question now?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: look back, say, be, ask, question · To what, where: chapter, world, question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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: Looking back to chapter II: Alice said "Who in the world am I?" in the hall.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 chapter | mark |
| 4 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 5 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 4 chapter | flat |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Who | punct |
| 10 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Who | nmod |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Who | cop |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Who | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Who | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Who | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Who | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Alice not said here | chapter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Alice | the world | in the hall | tree rules |
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: Who asks her this question now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 question | nmod:poss |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 question | det |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 asks | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Alice's question | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | question | Alice | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The Caterpillar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caterpillar | det |
| 2 | Caterpillar | Caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The old Crab
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crab | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Crab | amod |
| 3 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Alice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Mouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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