Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 25: the Lion kills th…
Dude, did the Lion even try to fight the Hammer-Heads?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lion · What happens: try, fight · To what, where: Hammer Heads
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1610 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 25: the Lion kills the spider monster, and the Winged Monkeys fly the friends over the Hammer-Heads' hill» 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | parataxis |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 try | nsubj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 try | advmod |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fight | mark |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Heads | det |
| 11 | Hammer | Hammer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Heads | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hammer | punct |
| 13 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fight | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · do-support | the Lion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | the Hammer Heads | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer
Yep, and got knocked flat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 knocked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 knocked | cc |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocked | aux:pass |
| 5 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knocked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past · passive | flat property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
Option 2
Yeah, but he got smacked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 smacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 smacked | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 smacked | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 smacked | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smacked | aux:pass |
| 6 | smacked | smack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smack | past · passive | he | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
Nope, he just sat back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit back | past | he | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nope, he ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | he | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.
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