Test 2 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice…

Your little brother reads that Alice made a pool of tears and tries to cry a pool in the bath. What should you tell him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, Alice, you · What happens: read, make, try, cry, tell · To what, where: pool, bath, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your little brother reads that Alice made a pool of tears and tries to cry a pool in the bath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reads	nsubj
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reads	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 tears	case
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pool	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tries	cc
13	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cry	mark
15	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tries	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pool	det
17	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cry	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bath	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bath	det
20	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cry	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	present	Your little brother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	Alice	a pool of tears		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Product
3	try	present	Alice not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	a pool	the bath	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic

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 should you tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	you		Alice				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Carroll made a saying come true as a joke; real tears don't make pools

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 saying	det
4	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 joke	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tears	amod
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 make	advmod
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
16	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Carroll	a saying		tree rules
2	come	infinitive	a saying not said here		as a joke; true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not make	present · do-support	real tears	pools		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material pool=Product

Option 2

He should drink lots more water first, so that he has enough tears to fill it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drink	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	aux
3	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	conj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 drink	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 has	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	conj
13	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tears	amod
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fill	mark
16	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 has	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	should	He	lots and more water	first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	have	present	he	enough tears		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
3	fill	to-infinitive	he not said here	water		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only very tall people can cry pools of tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 people	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 tall	advmod
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 tears	case
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pools	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	can	tall people	pools of tears					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic

Option 4

He needs to cry for longer to fill the bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cry	mark
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 longer	case
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 cry	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fill	mark
8	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bath	det
10	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	present	He		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	cry speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for long=Recipient
3	fill	to-infinitive	He not said here	the bath	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bath=Patient

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