Test 12 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…
Okay, what did Dorothy say to the milkmaid first?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: say · To what, where: milkmaid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 6 say | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 milkmaid | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 milkmaid | det |
| 9 | milkmaid | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obl |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 say | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Dorothy | the milkmaid | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to milkmaid=Recipient |
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
"Oh, dear."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
"I'm very sorry."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | sorry property | tree rules |
Option 3
"Excuse me, please."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 2 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Excuse | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 2 Excuse | discourse |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | imperative | you not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
Option 4
"Are you all right?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | right property | tree rules |
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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