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title: Real talk, what did the Lion smash with his tail? — Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the Lion smash with his tail? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 9 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

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Real talk, what did the Lion smash with his tail?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** smash

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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/1609-pg55-part24/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t9:1
# text = Real talk, what did the Lion smash with his tail?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	smash	smash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | past · do-support | Real talk |  |  |  |  | with his tail | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A china church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t9:o1:1
# text = A china church
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The tall china clock on the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t9:o2:1
# text = The tall china clock on the wall
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A tall china tower near the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t9:o3:1
# text = A tall china tower near the gate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A glass window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t9:o4:1
# text = A glass window
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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