Exam question 3 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…
What was the total number of occasions on which the charm of the Golden Cap could command the Winged Monkeys?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: total number, charm · What happens: be, command, wing · To what, where: Winged Monkeys, occasions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 number | amod |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 occasions | case |
| 7 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 command | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 charm | det |
| 11 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 command | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Cap | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cap | det |
| 14 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Cap | amod |
| 15 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 charm | nmod |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 command | aux |
| 17 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 occasions | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Monkeys | det |
| 19 | Winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Monkeys | amod |
| 20 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 command | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the total number of occasions | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | command | could | the charm of the Golden Cap | the Winged Monkeys | occasions | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme on which=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three occasions in total only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 occasions | nummod |
| 2 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 total | case |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 occasions | nmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 occasions | advmod |
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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