Exam question 1 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

Which of the following did the old crow state to be the only thing of value in this world?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, be · To what, where: only thing

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1590 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow longs for brains, and the Tin Woodman is freed from rust» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 state	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	9 state	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 state	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 state	case
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 state	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 state	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 state	amod
8	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 state	compound
9	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	14 thing	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 state	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 value	case
16	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thing	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 value	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 state	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		the only thing				of value in this world	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

Being clever and kind to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 clever	cop
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kind	cc
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clever	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 others	case
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						to others; clever property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2

Courage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Brains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

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