--- title: Did the baby pull Toto's tail, or was it the other way round? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the baby pull Toto's tail, or was it the other way round? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1588 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silver shoes and sets off down the yellow road to the Emerald City» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silve… Did the baby pull Toto's tail, or was it the other way round? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** pull, be · **To what, where:** tail, other way This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1588 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silver shoes and sets off down the yellow road to the Emerald City» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1588-pg55-part3/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1588-pg55-part3:t11:1 # text = Did the baby pull Toto's tail, or was it the other way round? 1 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 15 round round ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past · do-support | the baby | Toto's tail | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | baby | the other way | | | | round *property* | tree rules | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Nobody did ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1588-pg55-part3:t11:o1:1 # text = Nobody did 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Nobody | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Toto pulled the baby's ear and then the baby pulled his tail ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1588-pg55-part3:t11:o2:1 # text = Toto pulled the baby's ear and then the baby pulled his tail 1 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | Toto | the baby's ear | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | past | the baby | baby's tail | | | then | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The baby pulled his tail ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1588-pg55-part3:t11:o3:1 # text = The baby pulled his tail 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | the baby | baby's tail | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Toto pulled her ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1588-pg55-part3:t11:o4:1 # text = Toto pulled her 1 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | Toto | her *= she* | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result | **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. 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