Exam question 4 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

What was the condition of the Tin Woodman's joints when Dorothy and the Scarecrow found him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: be, find · To what, where: condition, him

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 joints	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Woodman	det
7	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Woodman	compound
8	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 joints	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Woodman	case
10	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 condition	nmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 found	advmod
12	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 found	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Scarecrow	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Scarecrow	det
15	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Dorothy	conj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the condition				of the Tin Woodman's joints	tree rules
2	find	past	Dorothy and the Scarecrow	him = he					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

Stiff and slightly bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stiff	stiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bent	cc
3	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	4 bent	advmod
4	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stiff	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rusted so badly he could not move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rusted	rust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 badly	advmod
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Rusted	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 move	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 move	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 move	advmod
7	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Rusted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust	participle						badly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not move	could	he						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Rusted so badly that he could not bend them even slightly at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rusted	rust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 badly	advmod
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Rusted	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 bend	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bend	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bend	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bend	advmod
8	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Rusted	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bend	obj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 slightly	advmod
11	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	8 bend	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust	participle						badly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not bend	could	he	them = they		all		slightly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

Oiled and rusted in parts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oiled	oil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rusted	cc
3	rusted	rust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Oiled	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 parts	case
5	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rusted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oil	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	rust	participle				parts			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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