Test 8 · ★ · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…

So the Emerald City is close by, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Emerald City · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 City	det
3	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 City	compound
4	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 close	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 close	cop
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 right	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 by	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	6 close	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Emerald City					close property	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

Yep, you can see its towers from right here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 towers	nmod:poss
7	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 right	case
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 here	advmod
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	you	its towers		here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tower=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it's many days away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it's close, only an hour's walk beyond the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 close	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 close	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 close	cop
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	11 walk	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 hour	case
11	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	14 hill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					a hour's walk beyond the hill obl; close property	tree rules
2	walk		a hour					beyond the hill	nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent beyond=obl

Option 4

Yeah, just down the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 road	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 road	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 road	advmod
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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