Exam question 3 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppie…

What did the Queen of the Field Mice require of her subjects concerning the Tin Woodman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen, subjects · What happens: do, require, concern · To what, where: Tin Woodman

This is exam question 3 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	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 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 require	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Mice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mice	det
7	Field	Field	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mice	compound
8	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Queen	nmod
9	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 subjects	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 subjects	nmod:poss
12	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 require	obl
13	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 subjects	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Woodman	det
15	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Woodman	compound
16	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 concerning	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	require	present	the Queen of the Field Mice		of Queen's subjects	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	concern	gerund	Queen's subjects not said here	the Tin Woodman		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woodman=Experiencer

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

to fetch food for him each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fetch	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		food			morning	for him = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for he=Beneficiary

Option 2

to help him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive			him = he				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 3

to carry him across the wide river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 carry	mark
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	obj
4	across	across	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	to-infinitive		him = he		the wide river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that they serve him and obey his wishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 serve	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 serve	nsubj
3	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 serve	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 obey	cc
6	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 serve	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wishes	nmod:poss
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 obey	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	serve	present	they	him = he	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
2	obey	infinitive	they not said here	his wishes	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
3	wish		his = he		nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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