Test 1 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

Dude, who whacked all those wolves with the axe?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: whack · To what, where: wolves

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1600 «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West, part 15: wolves, crows and bees all fail, so the Witch reaches for her Golden Cap» 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	4 whacked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 whacked	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 whacked	nsubj
4	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wolves	det:predet
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 wolves	det
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 whacked	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 axe	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 axe	det
10	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whacked	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 whacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	Dude	all wolves				with the axe	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient with axe=Instrument

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

The Woodman of the tin who chopped every wolf down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Woodman	det
2	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chopped	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tin	det
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Woodman	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 chopped	nsubj
7	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chopped	obj
10	down	down	ADV	_	7 chopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	past	the Woodman of the tin	every wolf				down property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Tin Woodman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Woodman	compound
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Scarecrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Scarecrow	det
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The brave Tin Woodman who whacked the wolves with his axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woodman	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Woodman	amod
3	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Woodman	compound
4	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 whacked	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 whacked	nsubj
6	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolves	det
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 whacked	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 axe	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 axe	nmod:poss
11	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past	the brave Tin Woodman	the wolves				with Woodman's axe	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient with axe=Instrument

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