Test 13 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

Fam, why didn't the Witch make them her slaves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: not make · To what, where: them

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 make	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 make	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Witch	det
7	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fam	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 slaves	nmod:poss
11	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	past · do-support	the Witch	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary slave=Product

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

They're old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 old	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					old property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They weren't fit to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fit	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fit	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fit	advmod
4	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	They					fit property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They could not do the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	could	They	the work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 4

They were too ill to serve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 serve	mark
6	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					ill property	tree rules
2	serve	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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