Test 13 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman te…

real talk, why was it hard to walk on the road?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: road

This is test 13 · ★ 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hard	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hard	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hard	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hard	expl
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 walk	mark
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						hard property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive				the road			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory

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

wet mud and slippery roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mud	amod
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roots	cc
4	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roots	amod
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mud	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

dead leaves and dried branches that crunched and snapped under their feet all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crunched	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 branches	cc
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 branches	amod
5	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaves	conj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 crunched	nsubj
7	crunched	crunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 snapped	cc
9	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crunched	conj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snapped	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crunched	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	crunch	past	dead leaves and dried branches		day	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	snap	past	dead leaves and dried branches not said here	leaves's feet		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

thick mud, dead leaves and dried branches blocking the path to the Emerald City

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mud	amod
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leaves	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	amod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mud	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 branches	cc
7	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 branches	amod
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mud	conj
9	blocking	block	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 mud	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blocking	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 City	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 City	det
14	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 City	compound
15	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 path	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	block	gerund	thick mud and dead leaves and dried branches not said here	the path				to the Emerald City	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dead leaves and dried branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 branches	cc
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 branches	amod
5	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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