Exam question 2 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppie…

By what means did the Tin Woodman dispatch the Wildcat that pursued the field mouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tin Woodman, Wildcat · What happens: mean, dispatch, pursue · To what, where: Wildcat, field mouse

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1595 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppies, the Woodman's axe, and the Queen of the Field Mice» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dispatch	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woodman	det
6	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woodman	compound
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dispatch	nsubj
8	dispatch	dispatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Wildcat	det
10	Wildcat	wildcat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dispatch	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 pursued	nsubj
12	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Wildcat	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mouse	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mouse	compound
15	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pursued	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	dispatch	past · do-support	the Tin Woodman	the Wildcat	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildcat=Patient
3	pursue	past	the Wildcat	the field mouse	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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

by a kick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 kick	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kick	det
3	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by a heavy blow from a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 blow	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blow	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blow	amod
4	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 rock	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	nmod

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

Option 3

with his axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 axe	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 axe	nmod:poss
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by a single blow of his axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 blow	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blow	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blow	amod
4	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 axe	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 axe	nmod:poss
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow		his axe						nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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