Test 4 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…
In the Queen's game the balls are hedgehogs, the mallets are flamingos and the hoops are soldiers bent double. What would they be in real croquet?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: balls, mallets, hedgehogs · What happens: be, bend · To what, where: hedgehogs, game, flamingos, soldiers, real croquet
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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: In the Queen's game the balls are hedgehogs, the mallets are flamingos and the hoops are soldiers bent double.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 game | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Queen | case |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hedgehogs | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 balls | det |
| 7 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hedgehogs | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hedgehogs | cop |
| 9 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 soldiers | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flamingos | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mallets | det |
| 12 | mallets | mallet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flamingos | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 flamingos | cop |
| 14 | flamingos | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hedgehogs | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hoops | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hoops | det |
| 17 | hoops | hoop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hedgehogs | conj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 soldiers | cop |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 20 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 soldiers | acl |
| 21 | double | double | ADV | _ | 20 bent | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 soldiers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the balls | hedgehogs and flamingos and the hoops | the Queen's game | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the mallets | flamingos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | hedgehogs and flamingos and the hoops | soldiers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bend | participle | soldiers not said here | double property | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
Sentence 2: What would they be in real croquet?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 croquet | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 croquet | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 croquet | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 croquet | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 croquet | amod |
| 7 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | hedgehogs = hedgehog | real croquet | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Tennis balls, rackets and a net
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 balls | compound |
| 2 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rackets | punct |
| 4 | rackets | racket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 net | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 net | det |
| 7 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 balls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Snooker balls, cues and pockets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snooker | snooker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 balls | compound |
| 2 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cues | punct |
| 4 | cues | cue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pockets | cc |
| 6 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wooden balls, wooden mallets and metal or wire hoops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 balls | amod |
| 2 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mallets | punct |
| 4 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mallets | amod |
| 5 | mallets | mallet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hoops | cc |
| 7 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hoops | compound |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 wire | cc |
| 9 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 metal | conj |
| 10 | hoops | hoop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Footballs, cricket bats and two goalposts made of painted wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Footballs | football | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bats | punct |
| 3 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bats | compound |
| 4 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Footballs | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 goalposts | cc |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 goalposts | nummod |
| 7 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Footballs | conj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 goalposts | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wood | amod |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | two goalposts not said here | of painted wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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