Test 2 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrib…

Bro, was Oz actually scary or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oz · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1598 «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 13: Dorothy meets the great Head and is given a hard task» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scary	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scary	cop
4	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scary	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 scary	advmod
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 scary	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Oz					Bro vocative; actually, scary property	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

Yeah, super scary and loud and mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scary	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scary	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 scary	advmod
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 loud	cc
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scary	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mean	cc
8	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scary	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kinda, but his voice wasn't as awful as she thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	9 awful	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 awful	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 awful	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 voice	nmod:poss
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 awful	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awful	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 awful	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 awful	advmod
9	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awful	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	his voice					awful, kinda property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, his head was huge and he yelled at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 huge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 huge	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 huge	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 huge	cop
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 yelled	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 yelled	nsubj
9	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 huge	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his head					huge property	tree rules
2	yell speech: express	past	he					at her = she	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, his face was totally friendly and kind, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 friendly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friendly	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	cop
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 friendly	advmod
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kind	cc
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friendly	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honestly	punct
11	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 friendly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his face					friendly, honestly, totally property	tree rules
2	be		his face not said here						tree rules

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