Test 5 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silve…

Lol, Toto barked at the birds, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toto · What happens: bark

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 barked	nsubj
4	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 birds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 barked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 barked	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	4 barked	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 barked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	Toto					at the birds	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at bird=Stimulus

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

He barked at the cows in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barked	nsubj
2	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 cows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cows	det
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 barked	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	He			the field		at the cows	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at cow=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He barked at birds in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barked	nsubj
2	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 barked	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 barked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	He			the trees		at birds	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at bird=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, he barked at a big grey wolf sitting under the old willow tree

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 barked	nsubj
4	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 wolf	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wolf	amod
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wolf	amod
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barked	obl
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wolf	acl
11	under	under	ADP	_	15 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
14	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	he					at a big grey wolf	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at wolf=Stimulus
2	sit	gerund	a big grey wolf not said here			the old willow tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location

Option 4

Yeah, he barked at the birds and then chased a rabbit into the grass

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 barked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 barked	nsubj
4	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 birds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 barked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chased	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 chased	advmod
10	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 barked	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rabbit	det
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chased	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	he					at the birds	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at bird=Stimulus
2	chase	past	he not said here	a rabbit		the grass	then		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme into grass=Trajectory

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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