Test 9 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppie…

bet, what did the mice bring when they showed up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bet, mice · What happens: do, bring, show up

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mice	det
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	nsubj
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 showed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showed	nsubj
10	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 showed	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	bet	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	present	the mice	tree rules
3	show up	past	mice = mouse	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 wooden box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a bag of seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 seeds	case
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a piece of string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 string	case
4	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

Option 4

a piece of string tied to a big stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 string	case
4	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 piece	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stick	amod
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a piece of string not said here				to a big stick	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to stick=Co-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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