Test 10 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

Ngl, what did the Scarecrow say he was thankful for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, Scarecrow · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Scarecrow	det
6	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thankful	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thankful	cop
10	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 thankful	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Scarecrow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Ngl	thankful 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

Being stuffed full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stuffed	aux:pass
2	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stuffed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	gerund · passive						full property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»

Option 2

Being made of straw and not of china

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	aux:pass
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 straw	case
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 china	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 china	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 china	case
8	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 straw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund · passive						of straw and china	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Being made of straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	aux:pass
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 straw	case
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund · passive						of straw	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 4

Being stuffed with straw so he could not break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stuffed	aux:pass
2	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 straw	case
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuffed	obl
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 break	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 break	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 break	advmod
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stuffed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	gerund · passive						with straw	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with straw=Theme
2	not break	could	he						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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