Test 5 · ★ · The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part…

ok but why'd the Scarecrow not just ask for a brain tho

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: not ask

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	9 ask	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 ask	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 Scarecrow	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Scarecrow	det
6	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ask	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ask	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 ask	advmod
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 brain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brain	det
12	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl
13	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	infinitive	the Scarecrow					for a brain	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He was too scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He forgot to ask Oz

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ask	mark
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
5	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He						tree rules
2	not ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	He not said here		Oz				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient

Option 3

He thought brains were rare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rare	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rare	cop
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	brains					rare property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He thought Oz had them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	Oz	them = they					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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