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title: By whom was it decided that only one visitor each day may be admitte… — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: By whom was it decided that only one visitor each day may be admitted to the presence of Oz? Exam question 3 of lesson 1597 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Emerald City and wear green spectacles» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Em…

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By whom was it decided that only one visitor each day may be admitted to the presence of Oz?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** be, admit · **To what, where:** one visitor, presence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1597 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Emerald City and wear green spectacles» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1597-pg55-part12/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e3:1
# text = By whom was it decided that only one visitor each day may be admitted to the presence of Oz?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | decide *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | may · passive |  | one visitor  each day | the presence of Oz |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to presence=Recipient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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By the Lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e3:o1:1
# text = By the Lion
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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By Oz himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e3:o2:1
# text = By Oz himself
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By Oz

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e3:o3:1
# text = By Oz
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	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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By Dorothy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e3:o4:1
# text = By Dorothy
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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