Exam question 1 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in…

Upon what substance did Oz apply a coating in order to render the balloon airtight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: apply, render · To what, where: coating, balloon

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1607 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in a balloon, and Dorothy is left behind» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 apply	obl
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apply	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 apply	aux
5	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 apply	nsubj
6	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coating	det
8	coating	coating	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apply	obj
9	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 render	mark
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	fixed
11	to	to	PART	_	12 render	mark
12	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 apply	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 balloon	det
14	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 render	obj
15	airtight	airtight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 render	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 apply	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	past · do-support	substance	a coating					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coating=Theme upon what=Destination
2	render	to-infinitive	substance not said here	the balloon				airtight property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=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

Thick varnish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 varnish	amod
2	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Gum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thin glue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glue	amod
2	glue	glue	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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