Exam question 4 · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

What was the concealed device, rendered invisible by magic, that the Witch placed upon the kitchen floor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: conceal, be, render, place · To what, where: concealed device, kitchen floor

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 device	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 device	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 device	det
4	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 device	amod
5	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rendered	punct
7	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 device	acl
8	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rendered	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 magic	case
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rendered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 placed	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 placed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Witch	det
14	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 placed	nsubj
15	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 device	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 floor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 floor	compound
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 placed	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 device	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conceal	participle					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the concealed device			tree rules
3	render	participle		the concealed device not said here		by magic; invisible property	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	place	past	the Witch		the kitchen floor		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon floor=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

An iron bar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bar	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bar	compound
3	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hook	det
2	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A hidden wire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wire	det
2	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wire	amod
3	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A small trap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trap	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trap	amod
3	trap	trap	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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