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title: What does Alice really want at the end of this part? — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What does Alice really want at the end of this part? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 3 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 9 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and cur…

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What does Alice really want at the end of this part?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** end

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 3 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser:t9:1
# text = What does Alice really want at the end of this part?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present |  |  |  |  | at the end of this part |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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For her sister to come down and fetch her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser:t9:o1:1
# text = For her sister to come down and fetch her
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | to-infinitive | her sister |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | her sister *not said here* | sister |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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For someone to bring her a tiny cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser:t9:o2:1
# text = For someone to bring her a tiny cake
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | to-infinitive | someone | a tiny cake | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination cake=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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For people to put their heads down and call her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser:t9:o3:1
# text = For people to put their heads down and call her
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | to-infinitive | people | people's heads |  |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To be bigger.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser:t9:o4:1
# text = To be bigger.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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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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