Test 3 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

Lowkey, why didn't the crows go for the Scarecrow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crows · What happens: not go

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crows	det
7	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 Scarecrow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Scarecrow	det
11	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · do-support	the crows					for the Scarecrow	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for scarecrow=Beneficiary

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

Because they realized he was only a stuffed straw man with no brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 realized	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 realized	nsubj
3	realized	realize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 man	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 man	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
8	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 man	amod
9	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	compound
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 realized	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 brain	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 brain	det
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	realize	past	they			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stuff	participle				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	a stuffed straw man	with no brain	tree rules

Option 2

They thought he was real

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 real	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					real property	tree rules

Option 3

They thought he was a stuffed man made of straw

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 straw	case
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stuff	participle				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	a stuffed man		tree rules
4	make	participle		a stuffed man not said here	of straw	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They thought he was stuffed

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuffed	aux:pass
5	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stuff	past · passive		he					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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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