Exam question 4 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman te…

What did the old woman offer the Wicked Witch in exchange for preventing the marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman, exchange · What happens: offer, prevent · To what, where: Wicked Witch, exchange, marriage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1591 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman tells how he lost his body and heart» 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	6 offer	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 offer	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	nsubj
6	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Witch	det
8	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Witch	amod
9	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 exchange	case
11	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	obl
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 preventing	mark
13	preventing	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 exchange	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 marriage	det
15	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 preventing	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	the old woman	the Wicked Witch		exchange			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal witch=Theme
2	prevent	gerund	exchange not said here	the marriage					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme

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

A goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two sheep and a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sheep	nummod
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cow	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	conj

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

Option 3

Three hens and a pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hens	nummod
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pig	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pig	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hens	conj

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

Option 4

Ten eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 eggs	nummod
2	eggs	egg	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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