Exam question 2 · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…

Identify the object which the Scarecrow designates as the sole source of his fear, as recorded in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Scarecrow, his · What happens: identify, designate, record, fear · To what, where: object, passage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1589 «Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecrow who wants brains and joins her on the yellow brick road» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 designates	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Scarecrow	det
6	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 designates	nsubj
7	designates	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 source	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 source	det
10	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 source	amod
11	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 designates	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fear	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fear	nmod:poss
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 source	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recorded	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 recorded	mark
17	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 designates	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 passage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recorded	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	designate	present	the Scarecrow	the object		as the sole source of his fear	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Theme as source=Attribute
3	record	participle	the Scarecrow not said here		the passage		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in passage=Destination
4	fear		his = he				nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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

Crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Hungry black crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crows	amod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crows	amod
3	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Dark wet weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weather	amod
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weather	amod
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A lighted match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 match	det
2	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 match	amod
3	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	participle							vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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