Test 7 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 17: Dorothy melts the…

For real, why's Dorothy wiping that tin man's tears?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: wipe · To what, where: tears

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1602 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 17: Dorothy melts the Witch, frees the Winkies, and rescues her friends» 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 real	case
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wiping	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wiping	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wiping	aux
6	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wiping	nsubj
7	wiping	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 real	conj
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 man	det
9	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	compound
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tears	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wiping	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	present · progressive	Dorothy	that tin man's tears					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme

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 right answer

So his joints don't rust up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 rust	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 joints	nmod:poss
3	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rust	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rust	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 rust	advmod
6	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 rust	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rust up	present · do-support	his joints						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Because his face looks dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 looks	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 face	nmod:poss
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	his face					dirty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To clean him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 clean	mark
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	to-infinitive		him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Because the tears taste salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 taste	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tears	det
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taste	nsubj
4	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the tears					salty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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