Test 8 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppie…

deadass, how did the Woodman keep Toto from chasing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Woodman · What happens: keep, chase · To what, where: Toto

This is test 8 · ★ 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woodman	det
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 chasing	mark
10	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 keep	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the Woodman	Toto				deadass vocative	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Theme
2	chase	gerund	the Woodman not said here						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

tied him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tied	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past		him = he					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

held him tight in his arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 held	obj
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 held	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past		him = he		his arms		tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Location

Option 3

held him tight in his arms while the mice ran around them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 held	obj
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 held	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 held	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 ran	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mice	det
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 held	advcl
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past		him = he		his arms		tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Location
2	run	past	the mice	arms = arm					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

Option 4

he put him in a sack

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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sack	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	he	him = he		a sack			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sack=Destination

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