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title: Looking back: Alice once heard "a little pattering of feet" in the h… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: Alice once heard "a little pattering of feet" in the hall. Who was it then? Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 14 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long t…

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Looking back: Alice once heard "a little pattering of feet" in the hall. Who was it then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** look back, hear, be · **To what, where:** little pattering, hall, pattering

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This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/#t14).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Looking back: Alice once heard "a little pattering of feet" in the hall.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale:t14:1
# text = Looking back: Alice once heard "a little pattering of feet" in the hall.
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pattering	pattering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Alice | a little pattering of feet |  | the hall |  | once *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pattering=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who was it then?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale:t14:2
# text = Who was it then?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | pattering |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The White Rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale:t14:o1:1
# text = The White Rabbit
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	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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The Dormouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale:t14:o2:1
# text = The Dormouse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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 Mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale:t14:o3:1
# text = The Mouse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Caterpillar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale:t14:o4:1
# text = The Caterpillar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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