Test 14 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

How has Alice's feeling about her own size changed since chapter I?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: own size · What happens: have, change · To what, where: feeling, I

This is test 14 · ★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 has	advmod
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Alice	case
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 size	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 size	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 size	amod
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nmod
10	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 size	acl
11	since	since	ADP	_	12 chapter	case
12	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 changed	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 changed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		Alice's feeling				about Alice's own size	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
2	change	participle	Alice's own size not said here	I			since chapter		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

She is glad to change size as often as she can

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 glad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 glad	cop
3	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 change	mark
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glad	xcomp
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	5 change	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 can	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 can	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 often	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					glad property	tree rules
2	change	to-infinitive	She not said here	size				often property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient

Option 2

She wants to be taller than before

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 taller	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 taller	cop
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 wants	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here					tall property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She is tired of changing and wants to stay one size

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 tired	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 changing	mark
5	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wants	cc
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 size	nummod
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		tired property	tree rules
2	change	gerund	She not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	She not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	one size		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme size=Location

Option 4

She is now very happy

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	5 happy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 happy	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She				now	happy property	tree rules

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