Exam question 2 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

From what material did the old crow assert that the Scarecrow had been constructed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old crow · What happens: assert, construct · To what, where: Scarecrow

This is exam question 2 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 assert	obl
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 assert	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crow	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crow	amod
7	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assert	nsubj
8	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 constructed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Scarecrow	det
11	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 constructed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 constructed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 constructed	aux:pass
14	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 assert	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 assert	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assert	past · do-support	the old crow						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	construct	past · perfect · passive		the Scarecrow					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

Straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Dried corn husks and torn cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 husks	amod
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 husks	compound
3	husks	husk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cloth	cc
5	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 husks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Old bits of sacking and rags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bits	amod
2	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sacking	case
4	sacking	sacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bits	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rags	cc
6	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bits	conj

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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