Exam question 2 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

By what means did Dorothy's footwear transport her from the desert to the Kansas prairie within the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: footwear · What happens: mean, transport · To what, where: Dorothy, desert · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 transport	aux
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 footwear	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Dorothy	case
7	footwear	footwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 transport	nsubj
8	transport	transport	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 transport	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 desert	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 desert	det
12	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 transport	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 prairie	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prairie	det
15	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 prairie	compound
16	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desert	nmod
17	within	within	ADP	_	19 narrative	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 narrative	det
19	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 transport	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	transport	past · do-support	Dorothy's footwear	Dorothy		the desert to the Kansas prairie		within the narrative	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from desert=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

three steps made in the wink of an eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 steps	nummod
2	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 steps	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wink	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wink	det
6	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eye	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eye	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wink	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		three steps not said here		the wink of a eye			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

by riding a magic wind for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 riding	mark
2	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wind	det
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wind	compound
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riding	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 hours	case
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund		a magic wind			hour		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme

Option 3

by walking three long steps across the desert sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 steps	nummod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steps	amod
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walking	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 sand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sand	det
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sand	compound
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund		three long steps		the desert sand			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme across sand=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

through the air on a golden cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 air	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloud	amod
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 air	nmod

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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