Test 7 · ★ · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…

Is the road all smooth and easy to walk on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, walk on · To what, where: road

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 road	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 smooth	det
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 road	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 easy	cc
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smooth	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 walk	mark
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 walk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 road	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the road					tree rules
2	walk on	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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, it's sorta smooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 sorta	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorta	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sorta	cop
5	sorta	sorta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorta	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	sorta					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, it's kinda bumpy, but the Scarecrow walks fine on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 bumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bumpy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bumpy	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 bumpy	advmod
6	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walks	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 walks	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Scarecrow	det
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walks	nsubj
11	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bumpy	conj
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walks	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					bumpy, kinda property	tree rules
2	walk	present	the Scarecrow			it		fine property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it's super bumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 bumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bumpy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bumpy	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 bumpy	advmod
6	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yep, it's perfectly smooth the whole way to the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 smooth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smooth	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smooth	cop
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 smooth	advmod
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smooth	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					the whole way to the city obl; perfectly, smooth property	tree rules

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