Test 5 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppie…

so what was that little gray thing the Wildcat was chasing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little gray thing · What happens: chase

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1595 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppies, the Woodman's axe, and the Queen of the Field Mice» 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	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 chasing	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chasing	aux
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 chasing	mark
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
6	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chasing	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wildcat	det
9	Wildcat	Wildcat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	appos
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chasing	aux
11	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 chasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	little gray thing						vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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

a tiny gray mouse that lived in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouse	amod
3	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouse	compound
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mouse	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a tiny gray mouse			the field			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location

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

a field mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouse	compound
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a brown rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rabbit	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rabbit	amod
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a little gray field mouse running away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mouse	amod
3	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouse	compound
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouse	compound
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mouse	acl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	gerund	a little gray field mouse not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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