Test 14 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

Mega question, what did the Witch do when her Winkies ran off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch, Winkies · What happens: do, run off · To what, where: Mega question

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Mega	Mega	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 question	compound
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Witch	det
7	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 question	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 ran	advmod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Winkies	nmod:poss
11	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the Witch	Mega question					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	run off	past	Witch's Winkies						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yelled at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yelled	yell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	participle						at them = they	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus

Option 2

She threw them all into the dungeon for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 them	nmod:unmarked
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 dungeon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dungeon	det
7	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	She	them = they			week	into the dungeon result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into dungeon=Result

Option 3

She beat every one of them with a long leather strap until they fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 strap	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 strap	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 strap	amod
10	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strap	compound
11	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 fell	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	She	every one of them				with a long leather strap	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent one=Patient with strap=Instrument
2	fall	past	they						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Beat them with a strap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Beat	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 strap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 strap	det
5	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	them = they				with a strap	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with strap=Instrument

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