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title: Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.» — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.» Test 4 · ★★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadri…

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Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** this, Alice · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** Lobster poem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Is this TRUE or FALSE?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t4:1
# text = Is this TRUE or FALSE?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	FALSE	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:* «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t4:2
# text = «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Alice | the Lobster poem |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent poem=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

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

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False: it comes out as nonsense about a Lobster baked too brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t4:o1:1
# text = False: it comes out as nonsense about a Lobster baked too brown
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | it |  |  |  |  | as nonsense about a Lobster | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bake** | participle |  | a Lobster *not said here* |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True: it is about a Lobster and a sea of soup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t4:o2:1
# text = True: it is about a Lobster and a sea of soup
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | about a True Lobster and a sea of soup | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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True: she recites the Lobster poem correctly, every line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t4:o3:1
# text = True: she recites the Lobster poem correctly, every line
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	recites	recite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Lobster	Lobster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | present | she | the Lobster poem |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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True

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2:t4:o4:1
# text = True
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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