Exam question 3 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silve…
What colour was principally favoured by the inhabitants of the eastern country?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: favour · To what, where: colour
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 favoured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 favoured | aux:pass |
| 4 | principally | principally | ADV | _ | 5 favoured | advmod |
| 5 | favoured | favour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 inhabitants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inhabitants | det |
| 8 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 favoured | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 11 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 country | amod |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inhabitants | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 favoured | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favour | past · passive | the inhabitants of the eastern country | what colour | principally 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
Red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tan | Tan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/e3/