--- title: ★★★ Count the procession: ten soldiers, ten courtiers, ten royal chi… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Count the procession: ten soldiers, ten courtiers, ten royal children, then the Knave, and the King and Queen. Not counting the guests, how many is that? 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Not counting the guests, how many is that? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** count, not count, be · **To what, where:** procession, guests, that This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 15 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/#t16). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Count the procession: ten soldiers, ten courtiers, ten royal children, then the Knave, and the King and Queen. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t16:1 # text = ★★★ Count the procession: ten soldiers, ten courtiers, ten royal children, then the Knave, and the King and Queen. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Knave Knave PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | infinitive | ★ | the procession | | | | | 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:* Not counting the guests, how many is that? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t16:2 # text = Not counting the guests, how many is that? 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **count** | gerund | | the guests | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | that | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 33 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t16:o1:1 # text = 33 1 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 9 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t16:o2:1 # text = 9 1 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t16:o3:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 31 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t16:o4:1 # text = 31 1 31 31 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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