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title: Looking back to chapter III: whom else did Alice tell "you're so eas… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back to chapter III: whom else did Alice tell "you're so easily offended"? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Cate…

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Looking back to chapter III: whom else did Alice tell "you're so easily offended"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Looking, you · **What happens:** look back, tell, be · **To what, where:** chapter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar:t12:1
# text = Looking back to chapter III: whom else did Alice tell "you're so easily offended"?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  | chapter |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Looking |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | easily, offended *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar:t12:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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The Mock Turtle, who was sad and cried a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar:t12:o2:1
# text = The Mock Turtle, who was sad and cried a lot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Mock Turtle | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Pigeon, who was very cross about the serpent in the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar:t12:o3:1
# text = The Pigeon, who was very cross about the serpent in the tree
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Pigeon |  |  |  |  | about the serpent in the tree; cross *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Gryphon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar:t12:o4:1
# text = The Gryphon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gryphon	Gryphon	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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