Test 8 · ★ · Oz, The Cowardly Lion, part 7: a Lion attacks the travelle…
was the Lion's roar actually scary?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: roar
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roar | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 roar | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Lion | case |
| 5 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scary | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 scary | advmod |
| 7 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 scary | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Lion's roar | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, it was terrible, like a monster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 terrible | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 terrible | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrible | cop |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 monster | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 monster | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 monster | det |
| 9 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrible | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | like a monster; terrible property | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, but only for the first second
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 second | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 second | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 second | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 second | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 second | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 second | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 second | amod |
| 8 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nope, it was just a funny sound, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 8 sound | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sound | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 sound | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 7 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sound | amod |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sound | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 8 sound | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a funny sound | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, it was kinda cute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 cute | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cute | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cute | aux |
| 5 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 6 cute | advmod |
| 6 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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