Exam question 2 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

Upon which foot did the Witch first stand when she began the invocation of the Golden Cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: foot, Golden Cap · What happens: stand, begin, invoke · To what, where: invocation

This is exam question 2 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 did	mark
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 foot	det
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Witch	det
6	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 stand	advmod
8	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 began	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 invocation	det
13	invocation	invocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Cap	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cap	det
16	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Cap	amod
17	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 invocation	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past · do-support			first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	foot	the invocation of the Golden Cap		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invocation=Eventuality
3	invoke		the Golden Cap			nom invocation «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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

His left foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 foot	nmod:poss
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 foot	amod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Her foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 foot	nmod:poss
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her left foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 foot	nmod:poss
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 foot	amod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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