Exam question 4 · Oz, The Council with the Munchkins, part 2: Dorothy meets…

What did the Munchkins state was connected with the silver shoes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: connect · To what, where: Munchkins

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1587 «Oz, The Council with the Munchkins, part 2: Dorothy meets the Munchkins after the house lands on the Wicked Witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 connected	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 connected	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Munchkins	det
4	Munchkins	Munchkin	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 connected	nsubj:pass
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 connected	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 connected	aux:pass
7	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 shoes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoes	det
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoes	compound
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 connected	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 connected	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	connect	past · passive · do-support		the Munchkins				with the silver shoes	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient what=Result

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

A charm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 charm	det
2	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some charm, though its nature was unknown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 charm	det
2	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 unknown	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 unknown	mark
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nature	nmod:poss
6	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unknown	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unknown	cop
8	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 charm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	charm's nature					unknown property	tree rules

Option 4

A spell, though its power was known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 known	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spell	punct
4	though	though	ADP	_	6 power	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 power	nmod:poss
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spell	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 known	aux:pass
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		a spell though spell's power					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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