Test 11 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice…

★★★ Which of these is Carroll making a saying come TRUE, rather than a character exaggerating?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, saying, character · What happens: make, come, exaggerate · To what, where: saying

This is test 11 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	nsubj
4	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 ★	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 these	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 Which	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 making	aux
8	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 making	nsubj
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 saying	det
11	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	obj
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 making	xcomp
13	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 come	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 exaggerating	punct
15	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 exaggerating	cc
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 rather	fixed
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 character	det
18	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exaggerating	nsubj
19	exaggerating	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 making	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 making	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	★ ★ ★	a saying		tree rules
2	come	infinitive	a saying not said here		true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	exaggerate	gerund	a character			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

The Queen's «Off with her head!»

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	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Queen	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Off	punct
5	Off	off	ADV	_	2 Queen	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Off	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Toad's «Finest house on the whole river»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Toad	case
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
4	Finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 river	amod
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The pool from Alice's gallons of tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pool	det
2	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 gallons	case
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gallons	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Alice	case
6	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pool	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tears	case
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gallons	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Rabbit's «how late it's getting!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rabbit	det
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 getting	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rabbit	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 getting	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 getting	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 getting	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 getting	aux
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 getting	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 getting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · progressive	Rabbit					late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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