Exam question 3 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in…

Which individual was designated by Oz to govern the Emerald City during his absence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oz · What happens: designate, govern, absent · To what, where: individual, Emerald City

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 designated	aux:pass
4	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Oz	case
6	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 designated	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 govern	mark
8	govern	govern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 designated	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 City	det
10	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 City	compound
11	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 govern	obj
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 absence	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 absence	nmod:poss
14	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 govern	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 designated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	designate	past · passive	Oz	which individual		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	govern	to-infinitive	Oz not said here	the Emerald City	during Oz's absence	vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Theme
3	absent		Oz			nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Scarecrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Scarecrow	det
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Tin Woodman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Woodman	compound
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The soldier with whiskers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 whiskers	case
4	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 soldier	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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