Exam question 1 · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…
Toward which point of the compass did the travelers direct their journey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: travelers · What happens: direct, point, journey · To what, where: journey, compass
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1608 «Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fighting trees and a white china wall» 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 | Toward | toward | ADP | _ | 3 point | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 point | det |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 direct | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 compass | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 compass | det |
| 6 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 direct | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 travelers | det |
| 9 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 direct | nsubj |
| 10 | direct | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 direct | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 direct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct | past · do-support | the travelers | travelers's journey | toward which point of the compass | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | point | the compass | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | journey | travelers = traveler | nom journey «act 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 Southern lands of the Quadlings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lands | det |
| 2 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lands | amod |
| 3 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Quadlings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Quadlings | det |
| 6 | Quadlings | quadling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lands | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The South
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 South | det |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The East
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 East | det |
| 2 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The South, toward the Land of Glinda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 South | det |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Land | punct |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 Land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Land | det |
| 6 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 South | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Glinda | case |
| 8 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Land | 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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