Test 13 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

Looking back: Alice has now been three inches tall. What else small has she been, from chapter I to now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, small · What happens: look back, be, have · To what, where: chapter

This is test 13 · ★★ 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: Alice has now been three inches tall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tall	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tall	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tall	aux
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 tall	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 tall	cop
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 inches	nummod
9	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tall	obl:unmarked
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Alice not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present · perfect	Alice				now	three inches obl:unmarked; tall 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.

Sentence 2: What else small has she been, from chapter I to now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chapter	nsubj
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 chapter	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chapter	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 chapter	case
9	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 chapter	nsubj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 now	case
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 chapter	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	small						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	Alice			chapter			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ten inches, and a few inches in the pool of her own tears, which was very wet indeed

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inches	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 inches	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 inches	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inches	amod
7	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inches	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pool	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pool	det
10	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inches	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tears	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tears	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tears	amod
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pool	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wet	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wet	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wet	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 wet	advmod
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tears	amod
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 wet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her own tears					indeed, wet property	tree rules

Option 2

Ten inches, a few inches, and nine feet high at the door of the little hall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 inches	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 inches	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 inches	amod
6	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inches	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 high	cc
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	obl:unmarked
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 inches	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 hall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hall	amod
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	nmod

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

Option 3

Ten inches, and a foot in the pool of tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 foot	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 foot	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 foot	det
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inches	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pool	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 tears	case
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pool	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ten inches, and a few inches in the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inches	nummod
2	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inches	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 inches	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 inches	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inches	amod
7	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inches	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pool	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pool	det
10	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inches	nmod

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

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