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title: what did Dorothy say when the Lion tried to bite Toto? — Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did Dorothy say when the Lion tried to bite Toto? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1592 «Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travellers, is slapped, and joins them» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 7 · ★ · Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travelle…

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what did Dorothy say when the Lion tried to bite Toto?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dorothy, Lion · **What happens:** say, try, bite · **To what, where:** Toto · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1592 «Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travellers, is slapped, and joins them» 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/1592-pg55-part7/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1592-pg55-part7:t7:1
# text = what did Dorothy say when the Lion tried to bite Toto?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Lion *not said here* | Toto |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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"you ought to be ashamed"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1592-pg55-part7:t7:o1:1
# text = "you ought to be ashamed"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | ought |  |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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get away from Toto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1592-pg55-part7:t7:o2:1
# text = get away from Toto
1	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Toto |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from toto=Source |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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shame on you, big bully

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1592-pg55-part7:t7:o3:1
# text = shame on you, big bully
1	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bully	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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how dare you bite my dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1592-pg55-part7:t7:o4:1
# text = how dare you bite my dog
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | you | dare |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

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**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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