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title: fam, where did the river take them? — Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field,… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam, where did the river take them? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1594 «Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts off, Scarecrow stranded, Stork rescues him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 10 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts…

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fam, where did the river take them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** river · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1594 «Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts off, Scarecrow stranded, Stork rescues him» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1594-pg55-part9/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t10:1
# text = fam, where did the river take them?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | the river | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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across the green meadow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t10:o1:1
# text = across the green meadow
1	across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
away from the yellow road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t10:o2:1
# text = away from the yellow road
1	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
past the yellow brick road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t10:o3:1
# text = past the yellow brick road
1	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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far past the yellow brick road into the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t10:o4:1
# text = far past the yellow brick road into the forest
1	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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