Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 18: Dorothy finds the Golden…

ngl, why were they even lost in those fields?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: be · To what, where: fields

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1603 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 18: Dorothy finds the Golden Cap and the Monkeys carry the travelers» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	cop
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lost	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 lost	advmod
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fields	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 fields	det
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lost	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			that fields		lose property	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

They couldn't tell east from west after the Witch's spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	east	east	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 west	case
7	west	west	ADV	_	4 tell	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	12 spell	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Witch	det
10	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spell	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Witch	case
12	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	They				after the Witch's spell	east property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spell		the Witch						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They were too tired and couldn't tell which way the castle was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	conj
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					tired property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	could	They not said here	which way					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient castle=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They couldn't tell east from west

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	east	east	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 west	case
7	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	They			west		east property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They ran out of food by noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 food	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They			food	noon		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out food=Trajectory

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