Exam question 3 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Em…

By whom was it decided that only one visitor each day may be admitted to the presence of Oz?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, admit · To what, where: one visitor, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 decided	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 decided	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 decided	nsubj
5	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 admitted	mark
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 visitor	nummod
9	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 admitted	nsubj:pass
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visitor	nmod:unmarked
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 admitted	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 admitted	aux:pass
14	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 decided	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 presence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 presence	det
17	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 admitted	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Oz	case
19	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 presence	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 decided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					decide property	tree rules
2	admit speech: other	may · passive		one visitor each day	the presence of Oz				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to presence=Recipient

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 the Lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 Lion	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By Oz himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 Oz	case
2	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Oz	nmod

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

Option 3

By Oz

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 Oz	case
2	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By Dorothy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 Dorothy	case
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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