Exam question 4 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Em…

Which room was assigned to Dorothy at the front of the Palace?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: assign · To what, where: room, Dorothy, front

This is exam question 4 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 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assigned	aux:pass
4	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Dorothy	case
6	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 front	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 front	det
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assigned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Palace	det
12	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 assigned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assign	past · passive		which room	Dorothy	the front of the Palace			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to dorothy=Goal

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

A room with a green fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 fountain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fountain	det
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fountain	amod
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 room	nmod

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

Option 2

A room at the front of the Palace with green silk sheets, a fountain, and a view over the City

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 front	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 front	det
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 room	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Palace	det
8	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 sheets	case
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sheets	amod
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheets	compound
12	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 room	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fountain	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fountain	det
15	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheets	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 view	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 view	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 view	det
19	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 room	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 City	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 City	det
22	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 view	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A room with green silk sheets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 sheets	case
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sheets	amod
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheets	compound
6	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 room	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A large bright room with a green velvet bed and a tiny fountain of perfume in the middle

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 room	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 room	amod
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 room	amod
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 bed	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bed	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
8	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	compound
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fountain	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fountain	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fountain	amod
13	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 perfume	case
15	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fountain	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod

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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