Exam question 2 · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…
By what means did the leader of the company determine that Dorothy was protected from harm?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: leader · What happens: mean, determine, protect · To what, where: Dorothy
This is exam question 2 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 determine | obl |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 determine | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leader | det |
| 6 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 determine | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 company | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 company | det |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leader | nmod |
| 10 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 protected | mark |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 protected | aux:pass |
| 14 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 determine | ccomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 harm | case |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 protected | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | determine | past · do-support | the leader of the company | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | protect | past · passive | Dorothy | from harm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from harm=Theme |
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 kiss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kiss | det |
| 2 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The sign of the Good Witch's gift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gift | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Witch | det |
| 5 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Witch | amod |
| 6 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gift | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Witch | case |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sign | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | the Good Witch's gift | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 2 | gift | the Good Witch | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The mark of the Good Witch's kiss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mark | det |
| 2 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kiss | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Witch | det |
| 5 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Witch | amod |
| 6 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Witch | case |
| 8 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mark | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | the Good Witch's kiss | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 2 | kiss | the Good Witch | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
A red mark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mark | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mark | amod |
| 3 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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