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title: Fr fr, what was Toto doing? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr fr, what was Toto doing? Test 12 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

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Fr fr, what was Toto doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr fr · **What happens:** do

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t12:1
# text = Fr fr, what was Toto doing?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
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 | **do** | past · progressive | Fr fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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digging under the fence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t12:o1:1
# text = digging under the fence
1	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | gerund |  |  |  | the fence |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent under fence=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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running toward the barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t12:o2:1
# text = running toward the barn
1	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | the barn |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward barn=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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chasing the chickens across the yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t12:o3:1
# text = chasing the chickens across the yard
1	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | gerund |  | the chickens |  |  |  | across the yard | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme across yard=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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running away from the farmhouse door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t12:o4:1
# text = running away from the farmhouse door
1	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | gerund |  |  |  | the farmhouse door |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from door=Trajectory |

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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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