Exam question 4 · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

What was the condition of the china folk when removed from their own country?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, remove · To what, where: condition, own country

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 folk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 folk	det
7	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 folk	compound
8	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 removed	advmod
10	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 condition	acl
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 country	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 country	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 country	amod
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 removed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the condition				of the china folk	tree rules
2	remove	participle				their own country			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from country=Source

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

Their joints became stiff and rigid and useless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rigid	cc
6	rigid	rigid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stiff	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 useless	cc
8	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stiff	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Their joints					stiff property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their joints grew rigid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rigid	rigid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Their joints					rigid property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Their voices went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 voices	nmod:poss
2	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Their voices					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Their joints grew rigid and they could not bend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rigid	rigid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bend	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bend	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bend	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bend	advmod
9	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Their joints					rigid property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not bend	could	joints = joint						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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