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title: ★★★ Count the Cat's vanishings in this part: after "You'll see me th… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 15 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig…

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★★★ Count the Cat's vanishings in this part: after "You'll see me there", after "I thought it would", and the slow one at the end. How many times did it vanish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, You, I, Cat, part · **What happens:** count, see, think, vanish · **To what, where:** vanishings, part, me

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This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» of the books 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/#t15).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Count the Cat's vanishings in this part: after "You'll see me there", after "I thought it would", and the slow one at the end.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat:t15:1
# text = ★★★ Count the Cat's vanishings in this part: after "You'll see me there", after "I thought it would", and the slow one at the end.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	vanishings	vanishing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | infinitive | ★ | the Cat's vanishings |  | this part |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanishing=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | future | You | me |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **vanish** |  | the Cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom vanishing «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many times did it vanish?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat:t15:2
# text = How many times did it vanish?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past · do-support | part |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Five times, counting the grin twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat:t15:o1:1
# text = Five times, counting the grin twice
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grin	grin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund |  | the grin |  |  | time | twice *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grin=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat:t15:o2:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat:t15:o3:1
# text = Three
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat:t15:o4:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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