Test 7 · ★ · Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travelle…
what did Dorothy say when the Lion tried to bite Toto?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dorothy, Lion · What happens: say, try, bite · To what, where: Toto · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 tried | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bite | mark |
| 10 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bite | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Dorothy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | past | the Lion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bite not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | Toto | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=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 · ✓ the right answer
"you ought to be ashamed"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ashamed | punct |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ought | nsubj |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ashamed | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ashamed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ashamed | cop |
| 6 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ashamed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | ought | ashamed property | tree rules |
Option 2
get away from Toto
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 get | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Toto | case |
| 4 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | imperative | you not said here | Toto | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from toto=Source |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
shame on you, big bully
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 shame | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bully | punct |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bully | amod |
| 6 | bully | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 shame | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
how dare you bite my dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 dare | advmod |
| 2 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | you | dare | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
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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