Exam question 2 · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

Of what material was the wall which the travelers encountered composed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, travelers · What happens: be, encounter, compose · To what, where: wall

This is exam question 2 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wall	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 encountered	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 travelers	det
9	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 encountered	nsubj
10	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wall	acl:relcl
11	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 encountered	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the wall	tree rules
2	encounter	past	the travelers	the wall	tree rules
3	compose	participle	the travelers not said here		vn create-26.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Fine white porcelain from the Land of China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 porcelain	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 porcelain	amod
3	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Land	det
6	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 porcelain	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 China	case
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Land	nmod

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

Option 2

Crystal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Limestone or clay brick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 brick	cc
3	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brick	compound
4	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Limestone	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Porcelain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porcelain	porcelain	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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