Test 8 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 18: Dorothy finds the Golden…

yo, was Toto too tired for butterflies, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toto · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
4	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tired	nsubj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 butterflies	case
8	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tired	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 real	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tired	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Toto					for butterflies; tired property	tree rules
2	be		Toto not said here						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

Nah, he was tired of the walk, so he sat down and waited for Dorothy to carry him

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 walk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walk	det
8	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waited	cc
15	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 Dorothy	case
17	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 waited	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 carry	mark
19	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 waited	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		of the walk; tired property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	he			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	past	he not said here		for Dorothy	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive	he not said here	Dorothy		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, first time ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 time	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	advmod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 time	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he chased them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	he	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, first time ever, he said no to a butterfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 time	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	advmod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl:unmarked
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 time	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 butterfly	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 butterfly	det
12	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	no	a butterfly		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to butterfly=Recipient

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