Test 10 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

yo, who was guarding the castle, like, who was on watch?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: guard, be · To what, where: castle, watch

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1601 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch's slave» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 guarding	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guarding	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 guarding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guarding	aux
5	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guarding	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	5 guarding	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watch	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 watch	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 watch	cop
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 watch	case
14	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guarding	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 guarding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past · progressive		the castle					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary
2	is	past				watch			tree rules

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

the yellow Winkies, all scared of her and always watching the castle gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Winkies	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Winkies	amod
3	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 scared	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 scared	det
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 watching	cc
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 watching	advmod
11	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 scared	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gate	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gate	compound
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		the castle gate				always property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

Option 2

the yellow Winkies, who obeyed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Winkies	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Winkies	amod
3	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 obeyed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 obeyed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 obeyed	nsubj
6	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 obeyed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the yellow Winkies	her = she					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the yellow Winkies, all scared of her and the Witch's wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Winkies	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Winkies	amod
3	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 scared	det
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Winkies	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wolves	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Witch	det
11	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wolves	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Witch	case
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Winkies	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the yellow Winkies, all scared of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Winkies	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Winkies	amod
3	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 scared	det
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Winkies	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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