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title: so what was that little gray thing the Wildcat was chasing? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what was that little gray thing the Wildcat was chasing? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1595 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppies, the Woodman's axe, and the Queen of the Field Mice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 5 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppie…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so what was that little gray thing the Wildcat was chasing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** little gray thing · **What happens:** chase

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1595 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppies, the Woodman's axe, and the Queen of the Field Mice» 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/1595-pg55-part10/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1595-pg55-part10:t5:1
# text = so what was that little gray thing the Wildcat was chasing?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Wildcat	Wildcat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past · progressive | little gray thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tiny gray mouse that lived in the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1595-pg55-part10:t5:o1:1
# text = a tiny gray mouse that lived in the field
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a tiny gray mouse |  |  | the field |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a field mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1595-pg55-part10:t5:o2:1
# text = a field mouse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a brown rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1595-pg55-part10:t5:o3:1
# text = a brown rabbit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a little gray field mouse running away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1595-pg55-part10:t5:o4:1
# text = a little gray field mouse running away
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | gerund | a little gray field mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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