Test 14 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

why is the Witch too scared to go in Dorothy's room at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: be, go · To what, where: room

This is test 14 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 scared	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Witch	det
4	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 room	case
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 room	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Dorothy	case
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Witch					scared property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here			Dorothy's room	night		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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

she's afraid of Dorothy's room

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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 room	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Dorothy	case
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					of Dorothy's room; afraid property	tree rules

Option 2

she's scared, duh

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 duh	punct
5	duh	duh	INTJ	_	3 scared	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					scared property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she's scared of the dark, duh

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 duh	punct
8	duh	duh	INTJ	_	3 scared	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					of the dark; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

she's scared of the light, duh

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 duh	punct
8	duh	duh	INTJ	_	3 scared	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					of the light; scared property	tree rules

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