Exam question 4 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

Which character was rendered unable to conceal his emotion by the sorrowful farewell, causing damage to his joints?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: render, conceal, cause, emote · To what, where: character, emotion, damage

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rendered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rendered	aux:pass
4	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendered	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 conceal	mark
7	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rendered	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 emotion	nmod:poss
9	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 farewell	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 farewell	det
12	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 farewell	amod
13	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 causing	punct
15	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 conceal	advcl
16	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 causing	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 joints	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 joints	nmod:poss
19	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 causing	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rendered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	render	past · passive		which character	unable property	tree rules
2	conceal	to-infinitive		his emotion	by the sorrowful farewell	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent emotion=Patient by farewell=Location
3	cause	gerund		damage	to his joints	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient
4	emote		his = he			nom emotion «feeling 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 · ← Mova's choice

the Scarecrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Scarecrow	det
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Tin Woodman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the Wicked Witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Witch	det
2	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Witch	amod
3	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lion	det
2	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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