Test 9 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

the scarecrow was hella confused, what did he say about the wall?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scarecrow, he · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scarecrow	det
2	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 confused	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 confused	cop
4	hella	hella	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 confused	compound
5	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 say	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 confused	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 confused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the scarecrow					confused property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he					about the wall	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

"I cannot think why this wall is here"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 here	advmod
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 here	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 here	cop
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 think	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	can	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	this wall					here property	tree rules

Option 2

"This wall is here"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wall	det
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 here	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this wall					here property	tree rules

Option 3

"Oh, my!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 my	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 my	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 my	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 my	punct

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

"I wonder who built this strange wall"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	ccomp
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wall	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wall	amod
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	I						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	build in a quote	past		this strange wall					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product

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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