Test 4 · ★ · Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travelle…
wait, is the Scarecrow actually stuffed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, stuff · To what, where: Scarecrow
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1592 «Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travellers, is slapped, and joins them» 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 | _ | 5 Scarecrow | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Scarecrow | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Scarecrow | det |
| 5 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 stuffed | advmod |
| 7 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Scarecrow | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | 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 | is a | present | the Scarecrow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stuff | participle | the Scarecrow not said here | actually property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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's a man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a man | tree rules |
Option 2
kinda, but he has a heart inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 has | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 has | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 5 has | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | he | a heart | inside, kinda property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
Option 3
nah, he's just a tall tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 tree | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tree | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 tree | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a tall tree | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
lowkey yes, that's why he flopped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 why | nsubj |
| 2 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 1 lowkey | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 why | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 why | cop |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flopped | nsubj |
| 8 | flopped | flop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 why | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | lowkey | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flop | past | lowkey | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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