Test 9 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 18: Dorothy finds the Golden…

what'd the Monkeys do for fun back in the day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Monkeys · What happens: do back

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 'd	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Monkeys	det
4	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 'd	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fun	case
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 'd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do back	present	the Monkeys				day	for fun	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Pulled tails and threw nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tails	amod
2	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 tails	cc
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle							vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	Pulled tails	nuts					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme

Option 2

Chased birds across the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 fields	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fields	det
5	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	participle							vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Pulled tails of animals without wings and threw nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tails	amod
2	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threw	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 animals	case
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tails	nmod
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 wings	case
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle							vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	Pulled tails of animals without wings	nuts					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme

Option 4

Pulled tails and threw nuts at the animals who could not fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tails	amod
2	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 tails	cc
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fly	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fly	advmod
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 animals	acl:relcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	participle				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	Pulled tails	nuts	at the animals	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nut=Theme at animal=Destination
3	not fly away	could	the animals		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1603-pg55-part18/t9/