Test 1 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Em…

Dude, what was the Lion moaning about at supper?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, Lion · What happens: be, moan · To what, where: Lion

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1597 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Emerald City and wear green spectacles» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Lion	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Lion	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Lion	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
7	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Lion	acl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 moaning	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moaning	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the Lion					tree rules
2	moan	gerund	the Lion not said here					at supper; about property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at supper=Stimulus

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

Rice, which he said tasted of soap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tasted	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tasted	nsubj:pass
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tasted	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tasted	aux:pass
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Rice	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 soap	case
8	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past · passive		Rice				of soap	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Attribute

Option 2

Oats, which he said were horse food, and the cook's dreadful stew which made him ill

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 food	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Oats	acl:relcl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 food	cop
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	compound
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stew	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cook	det
12	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stew	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 cook	case
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stew	amod
15	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stew	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	Oats		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
2	is a	past	Oats	horse food	the cook's dreadful stew nmod	tree rules
3	make	past	the cook's dreadful stew	him = he	ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4	stew		the cook			nom stew «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Oats, which he said were horse food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 food	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Oats	acl:relcl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 food	cop
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	compound
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	Oats					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
2	is a	past	Oats	horse food					tree rules

Option 4

Cabbage, which he said was mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mud	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Cabbage	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mud	cop
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	Cabbage					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
2	is a	past		Cabbage mud					tree rules

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