Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

What would have happened if Alice had walked away for good?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: happen, walk away

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 walked	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 walked	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 walked	aux
8	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 good	case
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 walked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk away a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Alice					for good; away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

She would have missed the clue about the mushroom

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	4 missed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 missed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 missed	aux
4	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clue	det
6	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 missed	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 mushroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mushroom	det
9	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 missed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would · perfect	She	the clue				about the mushroom	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clue=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She would have stayed a three inch girl in the wood

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	4 stayed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stayed	aux
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 inch	nummod
7	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	compound
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	She	a inch girl		the wood			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme girl=Location

Option 4

The Caterpillar would have eaten her for supper

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	5 eaten	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 supper	case
8	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · perfect	the Caterpillar	her = she				for supper	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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