Test 11 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts…

the flowers were so lit, right? what color were the poppies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: color · What happens: lit, be · To what, where: flowers, poppies

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1594 «Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts off, Scarecrow stranded, Stork rescues him» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lit	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lit	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 lit	advmod
5	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lit	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	13 poppies	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct
9	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 color	det
10	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poppies	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 poppies	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 poppies	det
13	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lit	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		the flowers					tree rules
2	is a	past	what color	the poppies					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

red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

scarlet, like a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fire	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scarlet	conj

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

Option 3

pink, like a rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 rose	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rose	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pink	obl

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

Option 4

bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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