--- title: ★★★ The three soldiers stay behind to execute the gardeners. If the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ The three soldiers stay behind to execute the gardeners. If the procession began with ten soldiers, how many soldiers walk on with it? 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If the procession began with ten soldiers, how many soldiers walk on with it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, procession, many soldiers · **What happens:** stay, execute, begin, walk on · **To what, where:** gardeners This is test 17 · ★ 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/#t17). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ The three soldiers stay behind to execute the gardeners. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t17:1 # text = ★★★ The three soldiers stay behind to execute the gardeners. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 behind behind ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 execute execute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | ★ | | | | | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **execute** | to-infinitive | ★ *not said here* | the gardeners | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient | 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:* If the procession began with ten soldiers, how many soldiers walk on with it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t17:2 # text = If the procession began with ten soldiers, how many soldiers walk on with it? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 on on ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the procession | | | | | with ten soldiers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with soldier=Subeventuality | | 2 | **walk on** | present | many soldiers | | | | | with procession | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 0 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t17:o1:1 # text = 0 1 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t17:o2:1 # text = 7 1 7 7 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:t17: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} 9 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1:t17:o4:1 # text = 9 1 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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