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title: What does the ending say about growing up? — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What does the ending say about growing up? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 24 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 12 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence…

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What does the ending say about growing up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ending · **What happens:** say, grow up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 24 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:24-alice-alices-evidence-2:t12:1
# text = What does the ending say about growing up?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the ending |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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You can grow up and still keep a «simple and loving heart» and share stories

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:24-alice-alices-evidence-2:t12:o1:1
# text = You can grow up and still keep a «simple and loving heart» and share stories
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | can | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | You *not said here* | a simple heart |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | infinitive | You *not said here* | stories |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Growing up is sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:24-alice-alices-evidence-2:t12:o2:1
# text = Growing up is sad
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Growing |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grown-ups should never tell tales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:24-alice-alices-evidence-2:t12:o3:1
# text = Grown-ups should never tell tales
1	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | should | Grown ups | tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Adults forget all their dreams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:24-alice-alices-evidence-2:t12:o4:1
# text = Adults forget all their dreams
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present | Adults | Adults's dreams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** |  | Adults *= adult* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition 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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