Test 10 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

Ok but what was Uncle Henry doing when she showed up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle Henry, Henry · What happens: do, show up

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 doing	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 doing	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Henry	compound
6	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 showed	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showed	nsubj
10	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 showed	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Uncle Henry						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	show up	past	Henry						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

chopping the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	gerund		the wood					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

milking the cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	milking	milk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cows	det
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 milking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	milk	gerund		the cows					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source

Option 3

mending fences

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mending	mending	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fences	compound
2	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

plowing the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	plowing	plow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 plowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plow	gerund		the field					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_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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