Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travelle…

why did the Lion want to join the group?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lion · What happens: do, want, join · To what, where: group

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1592 «Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travellers, is slapped, and joins them» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lion	det
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 join	mark
7	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 group	det
9	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 join	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the Lion		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	the group	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he wants Oz to give him courage

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he	Oz					tree rules
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Oz not said here	courage	Oz				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient courage=Theme

Option 2

he wants to see the Emerald City

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 City	det
6	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 City	compound
7	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the Emerald City					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus

Option 3

he needs a friend to hunt with

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 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hunt	mark
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 friend	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	6 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	he	a friend					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme
2	hunt	to-infinitive	he not said here	a friend not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he wants to be a friend to the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow and needs help walking

The tree, 17 words

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 friend	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 friend	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 Woodman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Woodman	det
9	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Woodman	compound
10	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 friend	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Scarecrow	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Scarecrow	det
13	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Woodman	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 needs	cc
15	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	conj
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walking	compound
17	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	a friend	to the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow	tree rules
3	need	present	he not said here	help walking		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot walking=Theme

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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