Exam question 2 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silve…

By what means did the Witch of the North protect Dorothy from harm?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: mean, protect · To what, where: Dorothy

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1588 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silver shoes and sets off down the yellow road to the Emerald City» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 protect	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Witch	det
6	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 protect	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 North	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 North	det
9	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Witch	nmod
10	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
11	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 protect	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 harm	case
13	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 protect	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	protect	past · do-support	the Witch of the North		Dorothy			from harm	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dorothy=Beneficiary from harm=Theme

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

By bestowing a kiss upon her forehead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 bestowing	mark
2	bestowing	bestow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kiss	det
4	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bestowing	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 forehead	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 forehead	nmod:poss
7	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bestowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	gerund		a kiss				upon her forehead	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By giving her a silver wand to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 giving	mark
2	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 giving	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wand	det
5	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wand	amod
6	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giving	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hold	mark
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wand	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		a silver wand	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wand=Theme
2	hold	to-infinitive		a silver wand not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

With a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 spell	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By sending a bird to watch over her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 sending	mark
2	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sending	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 watch	mark
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sending	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		a bird					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	watch	to-infinitive						over bird	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location

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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