Exam question 1 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…
Which instrument did the Wicked Witch employ in order to summon her wolves?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: do, summon · To what, where: Wicked Witch employ, wolves
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1600 «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West, part 15: wolves, crows and bees all fail, so the Witch reaches for her Golden Cap» 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 instrument | det |
| 2 | instrument | instrument | 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 | 7 employ | det |
| 5 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 employ | amod |
| 6 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 employ | compound |
| 7 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 summon | mark |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 in | fixed |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 summon | mark |
| 11 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 employ | acl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wolves | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 summon | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which instrument | the Wicked Witch employ | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | summon | to-infinitive | which instrument not said here | instrument's wolves | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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
A brass trumpet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trumpet | det |
| 2 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trumpet | compound |
| 3 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A silver whistle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whistle | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whistle | amod |
| 3 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A small silver whistle hung on a golden chain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 whistle | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 whistle | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whistle | compound |
| 4 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 whistle | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 chain | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chain | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chain | amod |
| 9 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hung | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | a small silver whistle not said here | a golden chain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chain=Location |
Option 4
An ornate silver whistle set with jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 set | det |
| 2 | ornate | ornate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whistle | compound |
| 4 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | compound |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 jewels | case |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | 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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