Test 1 · ★ · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…
Dude, did the scarecrow really wink at Dorothy, or was she just seeing things?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, scarecrow · What happens: do, wink, see · To what, where: scarecrow, Dorothy, things
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1589 «Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecrow who wants brains and joins her on the yellow brick road» 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scarecrow | det |
| 5 | scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 wink | advmod |
| 7 | wink | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scarecrow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Dorothy | case |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wink | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 seeing | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seeing | aux |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seeing | nsubj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 seeing | advmod |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seeing | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | the scarecrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wink | present | the scarecrow not said here | Dorothy | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past · progressive | Dude | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He winked for real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 winked | nsubj |
| 2 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 real | case |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 winked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wink | past | He | for real | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nah, he just blinked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 blinked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blinked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 blinked | advmod |
| 5 | blinked | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blink | past | he | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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