Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travelle…

so the Lion is a total coward, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lion · What happens: be · To what, where: total coward

This is test 3 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 coward	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 coward	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coward	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coward	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coward	amod
7	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coward	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	7 coward	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 coward	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Lion	a total coward					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

nope, he fought the Woodman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woodman	det
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he	the Woodman					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fr, he says it himself, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 himself	nsubj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 says	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 himself	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he	himself = he					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he stood up to a dog, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dog	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	he	no cap				to a dog	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, but he hugs Toto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hugs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hugs	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 hugs	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hugs	nsubj
5	hugs	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hugs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	present	he	Toto					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Co-Agent

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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