Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silve…

Did the baby pull Toto's tail, or was it the other way round?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby · What happens: pull, be · To what, where: tail, other way

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1588 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silver shoes and sets off down the yellow road to the Emerald City» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	nsubj
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Toto	case
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 way	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 way	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 way	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	conj
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 way	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past · do-support	the baby	Toto's tail					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	is a	past	baby	the other way				round property	tree rules

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

Option 1

Nobody did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Nobody						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Toto pulled the baby's ear and then the baby pulled his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ear	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 baby	case
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pulled	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 pulled	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 baby	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulled	nsubj
11	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	Toto	the baby's ear					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	pull	past	the baby	baby's tail			then		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The baby pulled his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the baby	baby's tail					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

Option 4

Toto pulled her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	Toto	her = she					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result

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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