--- title: ★★★ Lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on. How many hours in all over the first ten days? Test 17 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/t17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/) / t17 # Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's… ★★★ Lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on. How many hours in all over the first ten days? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ Lessons · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ten hours This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/#t17). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t17:1 # text = ★★★ Lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Lessons Lesson PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADV RB _ 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | ★ Lessons | ten hours | | | day | | 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:* How many hours in all over the first ten days? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t17:2 # text = How many hours in all over the first ten days? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 5 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 10 advmod _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 9 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t17:o1:1 # 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 2 {#o2} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t17:o2:1 # 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 55 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t17:o3:1 # text = 55 1 55 55 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 50 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t17:o4:1 # text = 50 1 50 50 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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