Test 9 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

Why does the Caterpillar get angry about "three inches"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Caterpillar · What happens: get

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	5 get	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caterpillar	det
4	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 inches	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 inches	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 inches	nummod
10	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 angry	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	the Caterpillar					angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

Alice said it was too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 small	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					small property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Alice called its own height wretched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 height	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 height	amod
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
6	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Alice	its own height				wretched property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent height=Recipient

Option 3

Alice was too rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 rude	advmod
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice					rude property	tree rules

Option 4

Alice insulted its very long hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 insulted	nsubj
2	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insulted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insult	past	Alice	its long hair					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hair=Experiencer

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