Test 3 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

no cap, what did the trees do to the scarecrow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do · To what, where: trees

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1608 «Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fighting trees and a white china wall» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 scarecrow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 scarecrow	det
11	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the trees					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality
2	do	present	no cap					to the scarecrow	vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

hurled him at the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hurled	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hurled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl	past		him = he		the wall			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at wall=Destination

Option 2

flung him at his friends and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 flung	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 friends	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 flung	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laughed	cc
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 flung	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past		him = he				at his friends	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at friend=Destination
2	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

flung him at his friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 flung	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 friends	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 flung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past		him = he				at his friends	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at friend=Destination

Option 4

tossed him in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tossed	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past		him = he		the grass			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in grass=Destination

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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