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title: What did the Wizard admit when entreated not to speak so loudly? — Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Wizard admit when entreated not to speak so loudly? Exam question 4 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 of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 4 · Oz, The Discovery of Oz the Terrible, part 19: the Wizard…

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What did the Wizard admit when entreated not to speak so loudly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wizard · **What happens:** do, admit, entreat, not speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e4:1
# text = What did the Wizard admit when entreated not to speak so loudly?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	admit	admit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | the Wizard |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **entreat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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that he had been making believe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e4:o1:1
# text = that he had been making believe
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | present | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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that he was just a humbug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e4:o2:1
# text = that he was just a humbug
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	humbug	humbug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | he | a humbug |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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that he had been making believe to be a great wizard all along, and he was sorry

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e4:o3:1
# text = that he had been making believe to be a great wizard all along, and he was sorry
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	along	along	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | a great wizard |  |  |  | along *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
that he had been hiding behind it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1604-pg55-part19:e4:o4:1
# text = that he had been hiding behind it
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · perfect · progressive | he |  |  | it |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location |

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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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