Exam question 2 · Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 19: the Wizard…

At what hour did the Great Oz appoint the travelers to attend upon him in the Throne Room?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Great Oz · What happens: appoint, attend · To what, where: travelers, Throne Room

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1604 «Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 19: the Wizard is found to be a little old man» 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 appoint	obl
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	obl:unmarked
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 appoint	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Oz	det
6	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Oz	amod
7	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 appoint	nsubj
8	appoint	appoint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 travelers	det
10	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appoint	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 attend	mark
12	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 appoint	xcomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 attend	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 Room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Room	det
17	Throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Room	compound
18	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attend	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 appoint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appoint	past · do-support	the Great Oz	the travelers					tree rules
2	attend	to-infinitive	the Great Oz not said here			the Throne Room		upon Oz	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At four minutes after nine o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 minutes	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 o'clock	case
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 o'clock	nummod
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 minutes	nmod

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

Option 2

At four minutes before ten o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 minutes	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 o'clock	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 o'clock	nummod
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 minutes	nmod

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

Option 3

At noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

At nine o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 o'clock	case
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o'clock	nummod
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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