Test 2 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

so the crow said brains beat gold, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: crow, brains · What happens: say, beat · To what, where: gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crow	det
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	nsubj
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	6 beat	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the crow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	beat	present	brains	gold					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=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

nah, he said gold and brains are both worth nothing unless you have a farm to keep them on

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brains	cc
7	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gold	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nothing	cop
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 worth	advmod
10	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nothing	amod
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	ccomp
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 farm	det
16	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	18 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	gold and brains	nothing	tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a farm	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Patient
4	keep on	to-infinitive	you not said here	gold	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

yeah, but he also said gold is useless without clever friends to share it with

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useless	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 useless	cop
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 friends	case
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friends	amod
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 useless	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 share	mark
14	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 share	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	14 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	gold		without clever friends; useless property	tree rules
3	share	to-infinitive		gold		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, brains are the only thing worth having

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thing	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
9	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 worth	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	brains	the only thing					tree rules
2	have	gerund	brains not said here						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, brains are worth more than gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worth	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 worth	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	brains					than gold; worth property	tree rules

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