Test 7 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

how tall was the wall, be real

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tall wall · What happens: be · To what, where: tall wall

This is test 7 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 tall	advmod
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wall	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wall	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 real	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wall	punct
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 real	cop
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tall wall					tree rules
2	is	infinitive	the tall wall					real 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

higher than their heads and then some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 some	amod
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 heads	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heads	nmod:poss
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 higher	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 then	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 higher	conj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

taller than the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 taller	obl

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

Option 3

so high they couldn't even see the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 high	advmod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	they	the top					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

higher than their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	4 heads	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heads	nmod:poss
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 higher	obl

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

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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