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title: Lol, what was Aunt Em doing? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what was Aunt Em doing? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

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Lol, what was Aunt Em doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Aunt · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** Aunt

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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/1611-pg55-part26/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t11:1
# text = Lol, what was Aunt Em doing?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Em	Em	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Aunt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | Aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

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picking apples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t11:o1:1
# text = picking apples
1	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | gerund |  | apples |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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sweeping the porch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t11:o2:1
# text = sweeping the porch
1	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | gerund |  | the porch |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme porch=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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watering the cabbages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t11:o3:1
# text = watering the cabbages
1	watering	water	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** | gerund |  | the cabbages |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cabbage=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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washing the dishes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t11:o4:1
# text = washing the dishes
1	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | gerund |  | the dishes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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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