Exam question 4 · Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts…

What did the travelers observe upon entering the final scene of this part?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: travelers · What happens: do, observe, enter · To what, where: final scene

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1594 «Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts off, Scarecrow stranded, Stork rescues him» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 travelers	det
4	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 observe	nsubj
5	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 entering	mark
7	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 observe	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scene	det
9	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 scene	amod
10	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entering	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 part	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 part	det
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scene	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	observe	present	the travelers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	enter	gerund	the travelers not said here	the final scene of this part	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scene=Destination

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

a wide meadow of scarlet poppies in the warm sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meadow	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meadow	amod
3	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 poppies	case
5	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poppies	compound
6	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 meadow	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sun	amod
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poppies	nmod

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

Option 2

a meadow of tall grass and scarlet poppies near the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meadow	det
2	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meadow	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poppies	cc
7	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poppies	compound
8	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grass	conj
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poppies	nmod

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

Option 3

a valley of bright flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 valley	nmod

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

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

a meadow of scarlet poppies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meadow	det
2	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 poppies	case
4	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poppies	compound
5	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meadow	nmod

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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