Test 8 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…
Okay, what did the Scarecrow tell the Woodman to scatter over Dorothy?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: do, tell, scatter · To what, where: Woodman, Dorothy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Scarecrow | det |
| 6 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Woodman | det |
| 9 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 scatter | mark |
| 11 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 Dorothy | case |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 scatter | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the Scarecrow | the Woodman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | scatter not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dorothy | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over dorothy=Destination |
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
Dried corn husks and hay from the field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 husks | amod |
| 2 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 husks | compound |
| 3 | husks | husk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hay | cc |
| 5 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 husks | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 husks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Straw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Pieces of the broken scarecrow's stuffing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stuffing | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scarecrow | det |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 scarecrow | amod |
| 5 | scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuffing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 scarecrow | case |
| 7 | stuffing | stuffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pieces | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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