Test 8 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

did the Witch starve the Lion or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: starve · To what, where: Lion

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 starve	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Witch	det
3	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starve	nsubj
4	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 starve	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Lion	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 starve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · do-support	the Witch	the Lion					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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, no food till he obeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 obeys	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 obeys	nsubj
7	obeys	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	present	he						vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yep, she starved him a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 starved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starved	nsubj
4	starved	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starved	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past	she	him = he				a lot obl:unmarked	tree rules

Option 3

yep, no food till he obeys and does the harness work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 obeys	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 obeys	nsubj
7	obeys	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 does	cc
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 obeys	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 work	det
11	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	compound
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	present	he						vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	he not said here	the harness work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 4

yep, no food at all till he obeys her and pulls her cart all day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	9 obeys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 food	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yep	appos
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 food	nmod
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 obeys	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 obeys	nsubj
9	obeys	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 obeys	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pulls	cc
12	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 obeys	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cart	nmod:poss
14	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulls	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulls	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	present	he	her = she					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	pull	present	he not said here	her cart			day		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

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