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Test 9 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice…

★★★ Alice is «more than nine feet high». Her pool of tears is «about four inches deep». A child of 4 feet stands in it. About how far up her legs does it come?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, pool, child · What happens: be, stand, come · To what, where: pool

This is test 9 · ★ 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: ★★★ Alice is «more than nine feet high».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 high	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	list
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 nine	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	obl:unmarked
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	★					nine feet obl:unmarked; high 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: Her pool of tears is «about four inches deep».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 pool	nmod:poss
2	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deep	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 tears	case
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pool	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 deep	cop
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 deep	punct
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 four	advmod
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 inches	nummod
9	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deep	obl:unmarked
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 deep	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 deep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	★'s pool of tears					four inches obl:unmarked; deep property	tree rules

Sentence 3: A child of 4 feet stands in it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stands	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 child	nmod
6	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stands	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a child of 4 feet			pool			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location

Sentence 4: About how far up her legs does it come?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	SCONJ	_	3 far	mark
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 far	advmod
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 come	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 legs	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 far	obl
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support	pool					far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Up to her chin, so she has to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	8 has	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 chin	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chin	nmod:poss
4	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Up	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 has	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swim	mark
10	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 has	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	she						tree rules
2	swim	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

About nine feet, as high as Alice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 feet	nummod
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 high	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 Alice	case
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 high	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About four inches, just over her ankles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inches	nummod
3	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ankles	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 ankles	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 ankles	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ankles	nmod:poss
8	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 inches	conj

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

Option 4

Over her head, like a deep pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	3 head	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pool	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 pool	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pool	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pool	amod
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 head	conj

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

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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