Test 9 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 25: the Lion kills th…

Was the Quadling country actually pretty, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Quadling country

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1610 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 25: the Lion kills the spider monster, and the Winged Monkeys fly the friends over the Hammer-Heads' hill» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 country	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 country	det
3	Quadling	Quadling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 country	compound
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 pretty	advmod
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 country	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nah	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 country	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 country	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Quadling country				pretty 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

Yeah, it had green fields, gold rivers, and bright red houses with white fences all around

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fields	amod
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rivers	punct
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rivers	compound
9	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fields	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 houses	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 houses	cc
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 houses	amod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 houses	amod
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 fences	case
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fences	amod
17	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 houses	nmod
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 around	advmod
19	around	around	ADV	_	4 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	green fields and gold rivers				around property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it looked dull with gray fields, dark houses, and a cold wind blowing across the land

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fields	case
7	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fields	compound
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dull	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 houses	punct
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 houses	amod
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fields	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blowing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blowing	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wind	det
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wind	amod
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blowing	nsubj
17	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 looked	advcl
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 land	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 land	det
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	blow	gerund	a cold wind			the land			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, fields and bright red houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 fields	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fields	punct
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 houses	cc
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 houses	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 houses	amod
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fields	conj

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

Option 4

Nah, mostly dry dusty fields and old barns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fields	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fields	punct
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 fields	advmod
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fields	amod
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fields	amod
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 barns	cc
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 barns	amod
9	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fields	conj

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

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