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title: ★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink mad… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink made Alice ten inches high. How much shorter than the door was she? Test 15 · ★ 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, with the depende
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# Test 15 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…

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★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink made Alice ten inches high. How much shorter than the door was she?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, drink · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** Alice, ★

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This is test 15 · ★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink made Alice ten inches high.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t15:1
# text = ★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink made Alice ten inches high.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ★ ★ the little door |  |  |  |  | fifteen inches *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the drink | Alice |  |  |  | high *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material alice=Product |

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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:* How much shorter than the door was she?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t15:2
# text = How much shorter than the door was she?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | ★ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ten inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t15:o1:1
# text = Ten inches
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	inches	inch	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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Fifteen inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t15:o2:1
# text = Fifteen inches
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Five inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t15:o3:1
# text = Five inches
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twenty-five inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door:t15:o4:1
# text = Twenty-five inches
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	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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