Test 7 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

Why does Alice say "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, wish, not offend · To what, where: creatures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wish	nsubj
7	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 creatures	det
9	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 offended	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 offended	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 offended	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 offended	aux:pass
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 offended	advmod
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	15 offended	advmod
15	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wish	ccomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 offended	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present · do-support	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present	Alice			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not offend in a quote	would · passive		the creatures	easily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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 keeps upsetting them without meaning to

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upsetting	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upsetting	obj
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 meaning	mark
6	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 upsetting	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	6 meaning	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	She		tree rules
2	upset	gerund	She not said here	them = they	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	mean	gerund	She not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She is angry that they ignore her rules

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 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 ignore	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ignore	nsubj
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 rules	nmod:poss
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		angry property	tree rules
2	ignore	present	they	her rules		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
3	rule		her = she			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She keeps upsetting them without meaning to, but she never once apologises to any of them for it

The tree, 18 words

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upsetting	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upsetting	obj
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 meaning	mark
6	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 upsetting	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	6 meaning	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 apologises	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 apologises	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 apologises	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 once	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 apologises	advmod
13	apologises	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 any	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 apologises	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 any	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 apologises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	She			tree rules
2	upset	gerund	She not said here	them = they		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	mean	gerund	She not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	apologise speech: apologize	present	she		to any; for it; once property	tree rules

Option 4

She keeps upsetting them without meaning to, and then she is blamed for everything that goes wrong

The tree, 17 words

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upsetting	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upsetting	obj
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 meaning	mark
6	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 upsetting	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	6 meaning	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blamed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blamed	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 blamed	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 blamed	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blamed	aux:pass
13	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 keeps	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 everything	case
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 blamed	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 goes	nsubj
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 everything	acl:relcl
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 goes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	She				tree rules
2	upset	gerund	She not said here	them = they			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	mean	gerund	She not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	blame	present · passive		she	then	for everything	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for everything=Attribute
5	go	present				wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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