Test 9 · ★★ · A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wr…

Alice says Rule Forty-two «ought to be Number One» if it is the oldest. Why is that a clever answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alice, Number · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Rule, Number, clever answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 191 «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world 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 says Rule Forty-two «ought to be Number One» if it is the oldest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Rule	Rule	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
4	Forty	Forty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rule	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Rule	appos
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Number	punct
8	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 Number	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	11 Number	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 Number	cop
11	Number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 two	conj
12	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 Number	flat
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 Rule	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 oldest	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 oldest	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 oldest	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 oldest	det
18	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 says	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice	Rule		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rule=Topic
2	is a in a quote	ought	Alice not said here	Number		tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Number		old 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: Why is that a clever answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 answer	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 answer	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 answer	det
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	amod
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a clever answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rules are numbered in order, so the oldest rule would be the first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 numbered	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 numbered	aux:pass
3	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 numbered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 first	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	14 first	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rule	det
9	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 rule	amod
10	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 first	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 first	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 first	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 first	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 numbered	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	number	present · passive		Rules				in order goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in order=Goal
2	is	would	the oldest rule					first property	tree rules

Option 2

Alice wanted to be the one who wrote and numbered all the rules of the court herself

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 one	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wrote	nsubj
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 numbered	cc
10	numbered	number	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrote	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 rules	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rules	det
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 numbered	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 court	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 court	det
16	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rules	nmod
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	Alice		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	the one	tree rules
3	write	past	the one	Alice	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	number	past	the one not said here	all rules of the court	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
5	rule		the court		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

Forty-two is a number that cannot be used for rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 number	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 number	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 used	nsubj:pass
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 used	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 used	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	aux:pass
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 number	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 rules	case
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Forty	a number					tree rules
2	not use	can · passive		a number				for rules	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for rule=Eventuality

Option 4

Rule Number One is always about people's height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rule	Rule	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 height	nsubj
2	Number	Number	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Rule	flat
3	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Rule	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 height	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 height	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 height	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 height	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 people	case
9	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rule					about people's height; always property	tree rules

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