Test 9 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

lol, toto couldn't see a thing in the forest, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toto · What happens: not see · To what, where: thing, forest

This is test 9 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	toto	toto	X	Foreign=Yes	6 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	toto	a thing		the forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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

yeah, toto could not see a thing, so he bumped into the trees all night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
3	toto	toto	X	Foreign=Yes	6 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bumped	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 bumped	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bumped	nsubj
12	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bumped	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bumped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	toto	a thing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	bump	past	he			the trees	night		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Location

Option 2

nah, toto could see fine in the dark but the scarecrow could not see at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	toto	toto	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 scarecrow	det
12	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	toto					fine property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not see	could	the scarecrow			all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, toto could see fine in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	toto	toto	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	toto			the dark		fine property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

yeah, toto couldn't see much at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
3	toto	toto	X	Foreign=Yes	6 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	toto			all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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