Test 7 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

mate, did the scarecrow really feel like a proud person?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scarecrow · What happens: feel

This is test 7 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scarecrow	det
5	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 feel	advmod
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 person	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the scarecrow					like a proud person; mate vocative	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like person=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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he felt embarrassed because the birds laughed at him all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 laughed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 birds	det
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laughed	nsubj
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laughed	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					embarrassed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	the birds				day	at him = he; long property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he felt quite important with the birds but also a bit silly about the hat

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 important	advmod
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 birds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 important	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 silly	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	14 silly	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 silly	obl:unmarked
14	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 important	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 hat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hat	det
17	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 silly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					important property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

yeah, he felt quite useful with the crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 useful	advmod
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 crows	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crows	det
9	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 useful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					useful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he felt quite important with the birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 important	advmod
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 birds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 important	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					important property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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