Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…

Was Dorothy mad when the scarecrow asked to come along?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scarecrow · What happens: be, ask, come along

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mad	compound
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 asked	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scarecrow	det
6	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 come	mark
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	xcomp
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		mad property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the scarecrow		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come along not said to happen	to-infinitive	the scarecrow not said here	along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

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 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, she told him to go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, she was happy to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					happy property	tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

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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