Test 9 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…

Which is true about «mad as a hatter»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 mad	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 true	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 hatter	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hatter	det
9	hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about mad; true property	tree rules

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

Hat-makers were harmed by mercury fumes, which may have helped the saying

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makers	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Hat	punct
3	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harmed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 harmed	aux:pass
5	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fumes	case
7	mercury	mercury	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fumes	compound
8	fumes	fume	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harmed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 helped	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 helped	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 helped	aux
13	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 fumes	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 saying	det
15	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	past · passive	mercury fumes	Hat makers					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	help	may · perfect	mercury fumes	the saying					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Beneficiary

Option 2

The saying was made up by Lewis Carroll in 1865 and nobody had ever said it before the book

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saying	det
2	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Carroll	case
7	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Carroll	flat
8	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1865	case
10	1865	1865	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 made	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 said	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 said	advmod
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 made	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 book	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 book	det
19	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive	Lewis Carroll	the saying		1865			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	nobody	saying			before the book; ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Hatters were mad because their hats were too tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hatters	hatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mad	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 tight	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hats	nmod:poss
6	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tight	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tight	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 tight	advmod
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mad	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hatters					mad property	tree rules
2	is	past	Hatters's hats					tight property	tree rules

Option 4

All Victorian hat-makers were sent to hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 makers	det
2	Victorian	victorian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 makers	amod
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makers	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hat	punct
5	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	aux:pass
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 hospital	case
9	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		all Victorian hat makers		hospital			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination

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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