Exam question 4 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 10: the sleepy poppie…

What material did the travellers employ in constructing the vehicle intended to transport the Lion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, travellers · What happens: do, employ, construct, intend, transport · To what, where: vehicle, Lion

This is exam question 4 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	3 did	obj
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 travellers	det
5	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 constructing	mark
8	constructing	construct	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 intended	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vehicle	det
10	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 constructing	obj
11	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 employ	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 transport	mark
13	transport	transport	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 intended	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lion	det
15	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 transport	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	material		tree rules
2	employ	present	the travellers		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	construct	gerund		the vehicle	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vehicle=Result
4	intend	past	the travellers not said here		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	transport not said to happen	to-infinitive	the travellers not said here	the Lion	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lion=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

iron rods and metal wire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rods	compound
2	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wire	cc
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wire	compound
5	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rods	conj

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

Option 2

limbs and branches of trees that had fallen in the storm last night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 branches	cc
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 limbs	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 branches	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fallen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fallen	aux
8	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 trees	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 storm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 storm	det
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fallen	obl
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 limbs	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	trees			the storm			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in storm=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

limbs and branches of trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 branches	cc
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 limbs	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 limbs	nmod

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

Option 4

limbs and branches of trees gathered from the forest near the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 branches	cc
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 limbs	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 branches	nmod
6	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 limbs	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	obl
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	participle		limbs and branches of trees not said here		the forest near the road			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from forest=Source

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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