Test 4 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silve…

Wait, was the brook water muddy and gross?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: brook water

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1588 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silver shoes and sets off down the yellow road to the Emerald City» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 water	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gross	cc
9	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 muddy	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the brook water					tree rules

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

Option 1

Nah, it was green and slimy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 green	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slimy	cc
7	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					green property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was clear and sparkling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 clear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clear	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clear	cop
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sparkling	cc
7	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 clear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						clear property	tree rules
2	sparkle	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was brown and smelly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 brown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brown	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brown	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brown	cop
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smelly	cc
7	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					brown property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it was dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	cop
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					dry property	tree rules

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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