Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

Lowkey, why was Dorothy so eager to get back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be, get back

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eager	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Lowkey	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eager	cop
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eager	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 eager	advmod
7	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eager	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eager	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lowkey					eager property	tree rules
2	get back	to-infinitive	Lowkey not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Aunt Em would be worried sick about her safety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sick	nsubj
2	Em	they	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sick	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sick	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sick	cop
5	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sick	amod
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 safety	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 safety	nmod:poss
9	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Aunt					about her safety; sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Aunt Em would be worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Em	they	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 worried	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 worried	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 worried	cop
5	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Aunt	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Em = they	Aunt not said here				worried property	tree rules

Option 3

Uncle Henry was waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Henry	compound
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	Uncle Henry						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

because Aunt Em would be very worried about her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 worried	mark
2	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 worried	nsubj
3	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Aunt	flat
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 worried	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 worried	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 worried	advmod
7	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 worried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Aunt					about her = she; worried property	tree rules

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