Exam question 3 · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

Which object was demolished by the Lion's tail upon his leap over the second wall?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tail, Lion · What happens: demolish, leap · To what, where: object, second wall

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demolished	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 demolished	aux:pass
4	demolished	demolish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 tail	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lion	det
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Lion	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demolished	obl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 leap	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 leap	nmod:poss
12	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demolished	obl
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 wall	amod
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demolished	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 demolished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demolish	past · passive	the Lion's tail	which object		the second wall		upon Lion's leap	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	leap		Lion						nom leap «act transitive»: poss=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

A tall china tower by the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tower	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tower	amod
3	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tower	compound
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tower	nmod

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

Option 2

A tall tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tower	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tower	amod
3	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A china church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 church	det
2	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 church	compound
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A china chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chair	compound
3	chair	chair	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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