Exam question 1 · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

Which entity did the Wicked Witch summon through her incantation for the third and final occasion?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: entity · What happens: do · To what, where: Wicked Witch summon, incantation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1601 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch's slave» 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 entity	det
2	entity	entity	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 summon	det
5	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summon	amod
6	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 summon	compound
7	summon	summon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 incantation	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 incantation	nmod:poss
10	incantation	incantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 occasion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 occasion	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 occasion	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 final	cc
15	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 third	conj
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which entity	the Wicked Witch summon		entity's incantation		for the third occasion	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Eventuality

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 Tin Woodman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Woodman	compound
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The flock of Winged Monkeys from the West

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flock	det
2	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Monkeys	case
4	Winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Monkeys	amod
5	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flock	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 West	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 West	det
8	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Monkeys	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	participle							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Winged Monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Monkeys	det
2	Winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Monkeys	amod
3	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	participle							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Winged Monkeys that serve the Wicked Witch of the West

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Monkeys	det
2	Winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Monkeys	amod
3	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 serve	nsubj
5	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Monkeys	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Witch	det
7	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Witch	amod
8	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serve	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 West	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 West	det
11	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Witch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	participle							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	serve	present	the Winged Monkeys	the Wicked Witch of the West					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Attribute

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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