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title: Looking back: in chapter V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't expl… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in chapter V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't explain myself... because I'm not myself». What does this part's line about yesterday have in common with it? Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)
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# Test 14 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

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Looking back: in chapter V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't explain myself... because I'm not myself». What does this part's line about yesterday have in common with it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Alice, line · **What happens:** look back, tell, not explain, not be, do, have · **To what, where:** Caterpillar, Alice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/#t14).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Looking back: in chapter V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't explain myself... because I'm not myself».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t14:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't explain myself... because I'm not myself».
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	iobj	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in chapter V | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in v=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  | the Caterpillar |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | Alice | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Alice | Alice |  |  |  |  | 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:* What does this part's line about yesterday have in common with it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t14:2
# text = What does this part's line about yesterday have in common with it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | this part's line about yesterday |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Both say she has changed so much that she isn't the same person, and both were said to the Caterpillar and the Gryphon

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t14:o1:1
# text = Both say she has changed so much that she isn't the same person, and both were said to the Caterpillar and the Gryphon
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Both |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **change** | present · perfect | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | she | the same person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | both | the Caterpillar and the Gryphon |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to caterpillar=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Both say she has changed so much she isn't the same person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t14:o2:1
# text = Both say she has changed so much she isn't the same person
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Both |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **change** | present · perfect | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | she | the same person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Both complain that the creatures are very rude to her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t14:o3:1
# text = Both complain that the creatures are very rude to her
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	complain	complain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | present | Both |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the creatures |  | her *= she* |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both say she should be allowed to leave the hall now, since she has been treated so badly and has nothing more to explain

<!-- fold The tree, 24 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t14:o4:1
# text = Both say she should be allowed to leave the hall now, since she has been treated so badly and has nothing more to explain
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obj	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Both |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **allow** | should · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | the hall |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |
| 4 | **treat** | present · perfect · passive |  | she |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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