Test 7 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 18: Dorothy finds the Golden…

bet, what made the Monkeys show up for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Monkeys · What happens: make, show up · To what, where: bet

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1603 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 18: Dorothy finds the Golden Cap and the Monkeys carry the travelers» 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 made	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Monkeys	det
6	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	nsubj
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 show	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 show	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		bet					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material
2	show up	present	the Monkeys					for real	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 · ← Mova's choice

A loud shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Toto barking at the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Toto	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund	Toto not said here					at the sky	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sky=Stimulus

Option 3

Dorothy blowing her whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	nsubj
2	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 whistle	nmod:poss
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund	Dorothy	Dorothy's whistle					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	whistle		Dorothy						nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dorothy saying the charm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Dorothy	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 charm	det
4	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Dorothy not said here	the charm					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent charm=Topic

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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