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title: Looking back: how high was the little door in chapter I? — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: how high was the little door in chapter I? Test 17 · ★ of lesson 14 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 17 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party…

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Looking back: how high was the little door in chapter I?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Looking · **What happens:** look back, be · **To what, where:** little door

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This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 14 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2:t17:1
# text = Looking back: how high was the little door in chapter I?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Looking | the little door and chapter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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About fifteen inches, which was not quite high enough for her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2:t17:o1:1
# text = About fifteen inches, which was not quite high enough for her
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | fifteen inches |  |  |  |  | for her *= she*; enough, high *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About twelve inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2:t17:o2:1
# text = About twelve inches
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About fifteen inches, though Alice found the door far too small to pass through

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2:t17:o3:1
# text = About fifteen inches, though Alice found the door far too small to pass through
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	through	through	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | fifteen inches | the door |  |  |  | small *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
| 2 | **pass through** | to-infinitive | fifteen inches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About fifteen inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2:t17:o4:1
# text = About fifteen inches
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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