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

dude, what were the Stork's babies doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 doing	obj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Stork	det
6	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 babies	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Stork	case
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 doing	nsubj
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	dude						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

waiting in their nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 nest	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nest	nmod:poss
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund				their nest			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location

Option 3

hiding in the reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 reeds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reeds	det
4	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				the reeds			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reed=Location

Option 4

waiting near the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 river	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund				the river			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Location

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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