Exam question 1 · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

Upon whom did the companions alight when they descended the first wall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: companions · What happens: do, descend · To what, where: companions, first wall

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 descended	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 companions	det
5	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 descended	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 descended	nsubj
9	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 wall	amod
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 descended	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 descended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the companions				alight property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Eventuality
2	descend	past	companions = companion	the first wall					vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=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 · ✓ the right answer

Upon the Scarecrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 Scarecrow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Scarecrow	det
3	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Upon the Tin Woodman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 Woodman	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woodman	det
3	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Woodman	compound
4	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Onto Dorothy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onto	onto	ADP	_	2 Dorothy	case
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

On the Lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 Lion	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	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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