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title: Looking back: in chapter IV, who held up Bill the Lizard and gave hi… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in chapter IV, who held up Bill the Lizard and gave him something out of a bottle? Test 16 · ★★★ 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 
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# Test 16 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tar…

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Looking back: in chapter IV, who held up Bill the Lizard and gave him something out of a bottle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** look back, hold up, give · **To what, where:** Bill, something, bottle

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This is test 16 · ★★★ 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t16:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter IV, who held up Bill the Lizard and gave him something out of a bottle?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	IV	IV	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme |
| 2 | **hold up** | past |  | Bill |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bill=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | something | Bill | a bottle |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Two white rabbits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t16:o1:1
# text = Two white rabbits
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rabbits	rabbit	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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Two guinea-pig cooks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t16:o2:1
# text = Two guinea-pig cooks
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t16:o3:1
# text = The Rabbit
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Two guinea-pigs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2:t16:o4:1
# text = Two guinea-pigs
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pigs	pig	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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