Test 4 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

Fr, why did the Princess yell "Don't chase me!"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess yell · What happens: do, not chase · To what, where: Princess yell, me

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 yell	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 yell	compound
7	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 chase	punct
9	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 chase	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 chase	advmod
11	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 yell	acl:relcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 chase	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 chase	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 chase	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Princess yell					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Eventuality
2	not chase in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the Princess yell not said here	me					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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

She feared the Scarecrow would knock her over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Scarecrow	det
4	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knock	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 knock	aux
6	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knock	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	knock over	would	the Scarecrow	her = she					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

She thought they'd stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stop	would	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She feared she'd break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 break	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 break	aux
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	break	would	she						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She was afraid they would take her away to Kansas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Kansas	case
10	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					afraid property	tree rules
2	take away	would	they	her = she	Kansas			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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