Test 11 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman te…

wait, so the tin man got split in two?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, split · To what, where: tin man, two

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1591 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman tells how he lost his body and heart» 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	_	8 split	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 split	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 split	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 split	aux:pass
8	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 two	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 split	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	split	past · passive		the tin man		two			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

nope, the tin was only scratched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 scratched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tin	det
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scratched	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scratched	aux:pass
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 scratched	advmod
7	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past · passive		the tin					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, the axe cut right through him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 axe	det
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the axe					through him = he; right property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through he=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep, the sword got him bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sword	det
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the sword	him = he				bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

yep, the axe cut right through him at the waist and split him into two halves

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 axe	det
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	8 him	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 waist	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 waist	det
11	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 split	cc
13	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 split	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 halves	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 halves	nummod
17	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the axe					through him = he; at the waist	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at waist=Patient
2	split	past	the axe not said here	him = he				into two halves result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into half=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1591-pg55-part6/t11/