Test 3 · ★ · The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part…

wait, was the Ball of Fire actually cotton?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: cotton, Ball

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1605 «The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part 20: Oz confesses he is a humbug and shows how his tricks worked.» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ball	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ball	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ball	det
5	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Fire	case
7	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ball	nmod
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 cotton	advmod
9	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	cotton					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the Ball				of Fire	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

Yep, wool with oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 wool	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 oil	case
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wool	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, it was really a ball of wax covered in silk and tied with string

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 ball	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ball	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ball	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 ball	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wax	case
9	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ball	nmod
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ball	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 silk	case
12	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tied	cc
14	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 covered	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 string	case
16	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a ball	of wax	tree rules
2	cover	participle		a ball not said here	in silk	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silk=Theme
3	tie	participle			with string	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, cotton with oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 cotton	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 oil	case
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cotton	nmod

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

Option 4

Nope, it was a hot metal ball painted red and filled with burning coal and oil

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	8 ball	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ball	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ball	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ball	amod
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ball	compound
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ball	acl
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 painted	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 filled	cc
12	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 painted	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 coal	case
14	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 coal	amod
15	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 filled	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 oil	cc
17	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a hot metal ball		tree rules
2	paint	participle		a hot metal ball not said here	red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fill	participle			with burning coal and oil	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with coal=Instrument
4	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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