Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

wait, did the scarecrow have a mouth at first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, scarecrow · What happens: wait, do, have · To what, where: mouth

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1590 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow longs for brains, and the Tin Woodman is freed from rust» 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	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scarecrow	det
5	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouth	det
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 have	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here		tree rules
3	have	present	the scarecrow	a mouth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient

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

nah, he didn't have one, so Dorothy had to draw him a smile on his face

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 draw	mark
13	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 draw	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 smile	det
16	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 draw	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 draw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not have	past · do-support	he	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	have	past	Dorothy				tree rules
3	draw	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here		Dorothy	Dorothy's face	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary smile=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he didn't know what a mouth was for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 know	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouth	det
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 for	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	7 what	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, he never knew what mouths were

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 knew	advmod
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 knew	ccomp
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 what	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	mouths						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, but he never used it because he didn't know what a mouth was for at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 used	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 used	advmod
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 know	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 know	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mouth	det
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 for	cop
17	for	for	ADP	_	13 what	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not know	past · do-support	he			all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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