Exam question 2 · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

For what reason did the china Princess decline to be conveyed to Kansas?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, convey · To what, where: Princess decline, Kansas

This is exam question 2 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 decline	det
6	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Princess	compound
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 decline	compound
8	decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 conveyed	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 conveyed	aux:pass
11	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 decline	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Kansas	case
13	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 conveyed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Princess decline					tree rules
2	convey	to-infinitive · passive		the Princess decline not said here	Kansas				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: to kansas=Recipient

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

Her paint would fade away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 paint	nmod:poss
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fade	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fade	aux
4	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fade	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade away	would	Her paint					away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Her joints would stiffen if she left her home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stiffen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stiffen	aux
4	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stiffen	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 home	nmod:poss
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stiffen	would	Her joints						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	she	her home					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 3

Her joints would stiffen and she could not walk back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stiffen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stiffen	aux
4	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walk	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walk	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 walk	advmod
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stiffen	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stiffen	would	Her joints						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not walk back	could	she						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her joints would stiffen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stiffen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stiffen	aux
4	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stiffen	would	Her joints						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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