Exam question 3 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…
In which location did the travellers pass the night, according to the account of this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: travellers · What happens: do, pass, accord, account · To what, where: location, part
This is exam question 3 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 location | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 travellers | det |
| 6 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 account | punct |
| 11 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 account | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 according | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 account | det |
| 14 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 part | det |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 account | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which location | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | present | the travellers | night | accord the account of this part | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | account | this part | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
In an old farmhouse near the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 farmhouse | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farmhouse | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmhouse | amod |
| 4 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 farmhouse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
In a large castle with many rooms and tall towers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 castle | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 castle | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 castle | amod |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rooms | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rooms | amod |
| 7 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 castle | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 towers | cc |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 towers | amod |
| 10 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rooms | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In a hollow tree trunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 trunk | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trunk | det |
| 3 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trunk | amod |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trunk | compound |
| 5 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A small cottage built of logs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cottage | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cottage | amod |
| 3 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cottage | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 logs | case |
| 6 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | participle | a small cottage not said here | of logs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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