--- title: Wait, is Toto gonna bite that straw guy or nah? — Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy mee… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, is Toto gonna bite that straw guy or nah? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1589 «Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecrow who wants brains and joins her on the yellow brick road» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1589-pg55-part4/t3/) [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 Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy mee…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1589-pg55-part4/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr… Wait, is Toto gonna bite that straw guy or nah? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Toto · **What happens:** wait, be, guy · **To what, where:** Toto This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1589 «Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecrow who wants brains and joins her on the yellow brick road» 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/1589-pg55-part4/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t3:1 # text = Wait, is Toto gonna bite that straw guy or nah? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 gonna gonna X FW _ 6 compound _ _ 6 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 guy guy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 nah nah INTJ UH _ 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Toto | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **guy** | | Toto | | | | | | 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} Maybe ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t3:o1:1 # text = Maybe 1 Maybe maybe ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Yeah, he bites a lot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t3:o2:1 # text = Yeah, he bites a lot 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | he | a lot | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Nah, he never bites ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t3:o3:1 # text = Nah, he never bites 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bite** | present | he | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yep, he's super mean ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t3:o4:1 # text = Yep, he's super mean 1 Yep yep INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 super super ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | he | | | | | mean, super *property* | tree rules | **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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