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title: Why does it «not matter a bit» to Alice what the jury writes? — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does it «not matter a bit» to Alice what the jury writes? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 23 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence…

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Why does it «not matter a bit» to Alice what the jury writes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it, jury · **What happens:** not matter, write · **To what, where:** bit, Alice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 23 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:23-alice-alices-evidence-1:t6:1
# text = Why does it «not matter a bit» to Alice what the jury writes?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | it | a bit | Alice |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | present | the jury |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No reason

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:23-alice-alices-evidence-1:t6:o1:1
# text = No reason
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are silly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:23-alice-alices-evidence-1:t6:o2:1
# text = They are silly
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The verdict is already written down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:23-alice-alices-evidence-1:t6:o3:1
# text = The verdict is already written down
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | present · passive |  | the verdict |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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

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Their notes are nonsense anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:23-alice-alices-evidence-1:t6:o4:1
# text = Their notes are nonsense anyway
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Their notes | nonsense |  |  |  | anyway *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **note** |  | Their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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