Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…
Wait, is Toto gonna bite that straw guy or nah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Toto · What happens: wait, be, guy · To what, where: Toto
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Toto | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Toto | cop |
| 4 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 guy | nsubj |
| 5 | gonna | gonna | X | _ | 6 bite | compound |
| 6 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guy | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 guy | nsubj |
| 8 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guy | compound |
| 9 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nah | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 guy | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | present | Toto | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | guy | Toto | 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
Maybe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he bites a lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bites | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bites | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bites | nsubj |
| 4 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bites | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | he | a lot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he never bites
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bites | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bites | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 bites | advmod |
| 5 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bite | present | he | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yep, he's super mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | cop |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | mean, super 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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