Exam question 4 · The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part…
What did Oz promise to bestow upon the Scarecrow and the Lion respectively on the following morning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oz · What happens: promise, bestow, follow
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1605 «The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part 20: Oz confesses he is a humbug and shows how his tricks worked.» 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 | 4 promise | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promise | aux |
| 3 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 promise | nsubj |
| 4 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bestow | mark |
| 6 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promise | xcomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Scarecrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Scarecrow | det |
| 9 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Lion | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Scarecrow | conj |
| 13 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 6 bestow | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morning | det |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 morning | amod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 promise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · do-support | Oz | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bestow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Oz not said here | morning | upon the Scarecrow and the Lion; respectively property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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
Brains for the Scarecrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Scarecrow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Scarecrow | det |
| 4 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brains | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Brains upon the Scarecrow and courage upon the Lion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 Scarecrow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Scarecrow | det |
| 4 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brains | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 courage | cc |
| 6 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Scarecrow | conj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Lion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 courage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A heart and a brain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brain | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 brain | det |
| 5 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Courage for the Lion and a heart for the Tin Woodman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Lion | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Courage | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heart | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Lion | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Woodman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Woodman | det |
| 10 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Woodman | compound |
| 11 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heart | nmod |
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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