--- title: At what hour did the Great Oz appoint the travelers to attend upon h… — Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible,… · tree and pragmatics description: At what hour did the Great Oz appoint the travelers to attend upon him in the Throne Room? Exam question 2 of lesson 1604 «Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 19: the Wizard is found to be a little old man» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1604-pg55-part19/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1604-pg55-part19/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 19: the Wizard… At what hour did the Great Oz appoint the travelers to attend upon him in the Throne Room? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Great Oz · **What happens:** appoint, attend · **To what, where:** travelers, Throne Room This is exam question 2 of lesson 1604 «Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 19: the Wizard is found to be a little old man» 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/1604-pg55-part19/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e2:1 # text = At what hour did the Great Oz appoint the travelers to attend upon him in the Throne Room? 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 obl _ _ 3 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 appoint appoint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 travelers traveler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | past · do-support | the Great Oz | the travelers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **attend** | to-infinitive | the Great Oz *not said here* | | | the Throne Room | | upon Oz | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} At four minutes after nine o'clock ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e2:o1:1 # text = At four minutes after nine o'clock 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} At four minutes before ten o'clock ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e2:o2:1 # text = At four minutes before ten o'clock 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} At noon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e2:o3:1 # text = At noon 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} At nine o'clock ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e2:o4:1 # text = At nine o'clock 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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