Test 9 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 17: Dorothy melts the…

Dang, what's the new axe handle made of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dang · What happens: be, make · To what, where: new axe handle

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 handle	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 handle	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 handle	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 handle	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 handle	amod
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handle	compound
8	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dang	appos
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 handle	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 made	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dang	the new axe handle					tree rules
2	make	participle		the new axe handle not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 · ✓ the right answer

Solid gold, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gold	amod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	2 gold	advmod

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

Option 2

Polished oak, nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 oak	amod
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 oak	appos
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Strong oak, polished bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 oak	amod
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 polished	punct
4	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 oak	acl
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 polished	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle		Strong oak not said here				bright property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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