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title: Gran in Cornwall: "That cake were proper job, my lover." ("proper jo… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 10 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…

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Gran in Cornwall: "That cake were proper job, my lover." ("proper job" = really good, "my lover" = a friendly way to say dear.) What is the cake's message written in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cake, message · **What happens:** be, say, write in · **To what, where:** proper job, dear, message · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» 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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gran in Cornwall: "That cake were proper job, my lover."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t10:1
# text = Gran in Cornwall: "That cake were proper job, my lover."
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that cake | proper job |  |  |  | my lover *vocative* | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* ("proper job" = really good, "my lover" = a friendly way to say dear.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t10:2
# text = ("proper job" = really good, "my lover" = a friendly way to say dear.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	8	punct	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | dear |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dear=Topic |

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*Sentence 3:* What is the cake's message written in?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t10:3
# text = What is the cake's message written in?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the cake's message |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write in** | participle |  | the cake's message *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Currants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t10:o1:1
# text = Currants
1	Currants	currant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Jam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t10:o2:1
# text = Jam
1	Jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chocolate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t10:o3:1
# text = Chocolate
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Icing sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t10:o4:1
# text = Icing sugar
1	Icing	icing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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