Test 6 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice…
«Toad says it's the end of everything, so the book's over??» What really happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad, it, book · What happens: say, be, happen · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: «Toad says it's the end of everything, so the book's over??»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 end | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 end | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 everything | case |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 over | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 over | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 over | cop |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 says | advmod |
| 16 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Toad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | it | the end | of everything | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the book | over 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.
Sentence 2: What really happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Toad stays in prison for ever and ever after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 prison | case |
| 4 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stays | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ever | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 stays | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ever | cc |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 ever | conj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 2 stays | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Toad | prison | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prison=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Toad is being dramatic; later he escapes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dramatic | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dramatic | cop |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dramatic | cop |
| 4 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 escapes | punct |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 escapes | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 escapes | nsubj |
| 8 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dramatic | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Toad | dramatic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | escape | present | Toad | late property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Badger closes the book for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 closes | nsubj |
| 2 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 closes | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 good | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 book | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | Badger | the book | for good | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
Option 4
The world ends and the book stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 world | det |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stops | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ends | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the world | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | the book | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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