Test 13 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in…

so is Dorothy stuck in Oz forever or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Oz

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1607 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in a balloon, and Dorothy is left behind» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	cop
3	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	compound
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Oz	case
6	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stuck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				Oz		forever, stuck 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she just needs a way across the desert so she can get back to Kansas

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 needs	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 needs	advmod
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 get	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 desert	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 desert	det
10	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Kansas	case
17	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 back	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	she	a way		the desert			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
2	get back	can	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yup, she needs a balloon ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ride	det
6	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ride	compound
7	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Yup	a balloon ride					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ride=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she needs a way across the desert to get home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 desert	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desert	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	she	a way		the desert			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	she not said here					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nah, Glinda can send her home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 send	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Glinda	Glinda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 send	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 send	aux
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 home	nmod:poss
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	can	Glinda	Glinda's home					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

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