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title: What would the King's trial be like if every witness disappeared lik… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would the King's trial be like if every witness disappeared like the cook? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tar…

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What would the King's trial be like if every witness disappeared like the cook?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witness, King · **What happens:** disappear, try

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)» 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/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t11:1
# text = What would the King's trial be like if every witness disappeared like the cook?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | every witness |  |  |  |  | like the cook | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would have no witnesses at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t11:o1:1
# text = It would have no witnesses at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	witnesses	witness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | It | no witnesses |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would have no evidence at all, so it would be just like the trial we are watching now

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t11:o2:1
# text = It would have no evidence at all, so it would be just like the trial we are watching now
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | It | no evidence |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | would | evidence |  |  |  |  | like the trial | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | present · progressive | we | the trial *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would end at once with a sentence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t11:o3:1
# text = It would end at once with a sentence
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | would | It |  |  |  |  | with a sentence | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with sentence=Subeventuality |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would have no evidence at all — just like now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t11:o4:1
# text = It would have no evidence at all — just like now
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | It | no evidence |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient |

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