Test 1 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice…

«the queen chops off heads every minute, Wonderland is literally a horror film» What does the book really say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen, Wonderland, horror film · What happens: chop off, be, do, say · To what, where: heads, horror film, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 54 «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 chops	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chops	nsubj
4	chops	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 chops	compound:prt
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chops	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chops	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 film	punct
10	Wonderland	Wonderland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 film	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 film	cop
12	literally	literally	ADV	_	15 film	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 film	det
14	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 film	compound
15	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 minute	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 film	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 does	nsubj
18	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 film	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 book	det
20	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 does	obj
21	really	really	ADV	_	22 say	advmod
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 does	advcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chop off in a quote	present	the queen	heads	minute		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present	Wonderland	a horror film		literally property	tree rules
3	do	present	a horror film	the book			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	a horror film not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She really does chop off a head every single minute of the day

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	4 chop	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 chop	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chop	aux
4	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 chop	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chop	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 minute	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minute	amod
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chop	obl:unmarked
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 minute	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	present · do-support	She	a head			minute		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Gryphon says nobody is ever executed: her threats are hyperbole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Gryphon	det
2	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 executed	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 executed	aux:pass
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 executed	advmod
7	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 hyperbole	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 threats	nmod:poss
10	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hyperbole	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hyperbole	cop
12	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Gryphon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	execute	present · passive		nobody	ever	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	present	Gryphon's threats	hyperbole		tree rules

Option 3

The Queen only chops off the heads of the gardeners who are late for work

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chops	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 chops	advmod
4	chops	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 chops	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heads	det
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chops	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 gardeners	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gardeners	det
10	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heads	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 late	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 late	cop
13	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gardeners	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 work	case
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	present	the Queen	the heads of the gardeners					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	is	present	the gardeners					for work; late property	tree rules

Option 4

Alice is executed at the end of the trial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 executed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 executed	aux:pass
3	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 executed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trial	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trial	det
9	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	execute	present · passive		Alice			at the end of the trial		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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