Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

Lol, what was Aunt Em doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aunt · What happens: be, do · To what, where: Aunt

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Aunt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Aunt	cop
5	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 doing	nsubj
6	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Aunt	flat
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Aunt					tree rules
2	do	gerund	Aunt						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

picking apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 picking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	gerund		apples					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

Option 2

sweeping the porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund		the porch					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme porch=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

watering the cabbages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	watering	water	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabbages	det
3	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 watering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	gerund		the cabbages					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cabbage=Destination

Option 4

washing the dishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dishes	det
3	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 washing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		the dishes					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient

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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