Test 7 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…
Innit the bees' stings broke on the tin, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, bees · What happens: break, sting · To what, where: tin
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bees | det |
| 3 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 bees | case |
| 5 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tin | det |
| 9 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| 11 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 broke | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Innit | the tin | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tin=Location | ||||
| 2 | sting | the bees | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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
No, the tin was soft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 soft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tin | det |
| 4 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soft | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soft | cop |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tin | soft property | tree rules |
Option 2
No, they bent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 bent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bent | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bent | present | they | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, the tin wrecked them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 wrecked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tin | det |
| 4 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrecked | nsubj |
| 5 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrecked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | past | the tin | them = they | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 4
No, tin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 tin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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