Exam question 4 · Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 19: the Wizard…

What did the Wizard admit when entreated not to speak so loudly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wizard · What happens: do, admit, entreat, not speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wizard	det
4	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 admit	nsubj
5	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 entreated	advmod
7	entreated	entreat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 speak	advcl
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 speak	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 speak	mark
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 admit	ccomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 loudly	advmod
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	10 speak	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	admit speech: other	present	the Wizard		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	entreat	participle			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive		loudly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP 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

that he had been making believe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 making	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 making	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 making	aux
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 making	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · progressive	he						tree rules
2	believe	present	he not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

that he was just a humbug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 humbug	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 humbug	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 humbug	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 humbug	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 humbug	det
6	humbug	humbug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a humbug					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

that he had been making believe to be a great wizard all along, and he was sorry

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 making	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 making	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 making	aux
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 making	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	11 wizard	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 wizard	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wizard	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wizard	amod
11	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believe	xcomp
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 along	advmod
13	along	along	ADV	_	11 wizard	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 making	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sorry	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sorry	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sorry	cop
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 making	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · progressive	he			tree rules
2	believe	infinitive	he not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	to-infinitive	he not said here	a great wizard	along property	tree rules
4	is	past	he		sorry property	tree rules

Option 4

that he had been hiding behind it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 hiding	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hiding	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hiding	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hiding	aux
5	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · progressive	he			it			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location

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