Test 5 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

No cap, what is Mr. Joker always trying to do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap, Mr. Joker · What happens: be, try, do · To what, where: Mr. Joker

This is test 5 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Joker	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 Joker	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Joker	cop
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Joker	compound
7	Joker	joker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 trying	advmod
9	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Joker	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	no cap	Mr. Joker		tree rules
2	try	gerund	Mr. Joker not said here		always property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mr. Joker not said here			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

Dance on his toes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 toes	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 toes	nmod:poss
4	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dance	nmod

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

Option 2

Turn somersaults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	somersaults					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme

Option 3

Stand upon his head and spin around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spin	cc
6	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	conj
7	around	around	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			his head and spin		around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stand upon his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			his head			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location

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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