Exam question 4 · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

What was the Scarecrow's reaction upon viewing the summit of the wall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: reaction · What happens: be, view · To what, where: reaction, summit

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reaction	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reaction	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Scarecrow	det
4	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reaction	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Scarecrow	case
6	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 viewing	mark
8	viewing	view	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 reaction	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 summit	det
10	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 viewing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 summit	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reaction	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Scarecrow's reaction					tree rules
2	view	gerund	the Scarecrow's reaction not said here	the summit of the wall					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer summit=Stimulus

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

He exclaimed "Oh, my!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exclaimed	nsubj
2	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 my	punct
4	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 my	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Oh	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 exclaimed	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 exclaimed	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 exclaimed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	He	my					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent my=Topic

Option 2

He laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was afraid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

He said "Oh, dear!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
4	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 dear	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Oh	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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