Test 5 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…
Why is the Rabbit so worried about losing his gloves and fan?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: gloves
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 worried | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worried | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worried | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 worried | advmod |
| 6 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 losing | mark |
| 8 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 worried | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 losing | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fan | cc |
| 12 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gloves | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 worried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Rabbit | worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | the Rabbit not said here | Rabbit's gloves and fan | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Eventuality |
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
They were magic and helped him grow and shrink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 magic | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 magic | cop |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 helped | cc |
| 5 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 magic | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 helped | obj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helped | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shrink | cc |
| 9 | shrink | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grow | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | magic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | past | They not said here | him = he | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shrink | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
They were made of gold and cost thousands of pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cost | cc |
| 7 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 8 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cost | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pounds | case |
| 10 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thousands | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | They | of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | cost | past | thousands of pounds | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They were part of being smartly dressed for the Duchess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 part | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 part | cop |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 dressed | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dressed | aux:pass |
| 6 | smartly | smartly | ADV | _ | 7 dressed | advmod |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 part | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Duchess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duchess | det |
| 10 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | They | part | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | gerund · passive | part not said here | for the Duchess; smartly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
Option 4
They were a gift from the Queen, who would count them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gift | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gift | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gift | det |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gift | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 count | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 count | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 count | aux |
| 11 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gift | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 count | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | They | a gift | from the Queen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | count | would | a gift | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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