Exam question 1 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Em…

Which colour is the great wall that surrounds the City?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: colour, great wall · What happens: be, surround · To what, where: great wall, City

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1597 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Emerald City and wear green spectacles» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wall	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wall	amod
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 surrounds	nsubj
8	surrounds	surround	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wall	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 City	det
10	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 surrounds	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which colour	the great wall					tree rules
2	surround	present	the great wall	the City					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Co-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

Pale silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silver	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Bright emerald green, covered in tiny glass jewels that sparkled in the sunshine all day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 emerald	amod
2	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 emerald	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 emerald	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 jewels	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jewels	amod
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jewels	compound
9	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 covered	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sparkled	nsubj
11	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jewels	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sunshine	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunshine	det
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sparkled	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		Bright emerald not said here			day	in tiny glass jewels	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in jewel=Theme
2	sparkle	past	tiny glass jewels			the sunshine			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bright green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Bright green, and it was thick and tall with many golden gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thick	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thick	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thick	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thick	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thick	cop
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tall	cc
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thick	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 gates	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gates	amod
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gates	amod
13	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					with many golden gates; thick property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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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