Exam question 3 · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

By what means did the Tin Woodman surmount the wall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tin Woodman · What happens: mean, surmount · To what, where: wall

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 surmount	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woodman	det
6	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woodman	compound
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 surmount	nsubj
8	surmount	surmount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surmount	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	surmount	past · do-support	the Tin Woodman	the wall					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-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

By wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 wings	case
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By a wooden ladder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 ladder	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ladder	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ladder	amod
4	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

By a rope bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 bridge	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	compound
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By a stone stair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 stair	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stair	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stair	compound
4	stair	stair	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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