Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

Looking back to chapter III: whom else did Alice tell "you're so easily offended"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Looking, you · What happens: look back, tell, be · To what, where: chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 tell	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chapter	mark
4	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	4 chapter	flat
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 did	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	9 did	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 offended	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 offended	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 offended	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 offended	advmod
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 offended	advmod
17	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tell	ccomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 offended	punct
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		chapter		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Looking			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you		easily, offended property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

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.

Option 2

The Mock Turtle, who was sad and cried a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Turtle	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sad	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Mock Turtle					sad property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the Mock Turtle	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic

Option 3

The Pigeon, who was very cross about the serpent in the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pigeon	det
2	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cross	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cross	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cross	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cross	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cross	advmod
7	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 serpent	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 serpent	det
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cross	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 serpent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Pigeon					about the serpent in the tree; cross property	tree rules

Option 4

The Gryphon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Gryphon	det
2	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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