Test 5 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

why didn't the Monkeys mess with Dorothy, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Monkeys · What happens: not mess

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1601 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch's slave» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 mess	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mess	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mess	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Monkeys	det
5	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mess	nsubj
6	mess	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Dorothy	case
8	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mess	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 mess	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mess	past · do-support	the Monkeys					with Dorothy	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she had the Good Witch's kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Witch	det
4	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Witch	amod
5	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kiss	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Witch	case
7	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	the Good Witch's kiss					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient
2	kiss		the Good Witch						nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

she had a magic mark on her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mark	det
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mark	compound
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a magic mark					tree rules

Option 3

they just didn't want to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	5 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

she was too strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 strong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					strong property	tree rules

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