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title: Which individual was designated by Oz to govern the Emerald City dur… — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 2… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which individual was designated by Oz to govern the Emerald City during his absence? Exam question 3 of lesson 1607 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in a balloon, and Dorothy is left behind» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 3 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in…

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Which individual was designated by Oz to govern the Emerald City during his absence?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oz · **What happens:** designate, govern, absent · **To what, where:** individual, Emerald City

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1607 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 22: Oz floats away in a balloon, and Dorothy is left behind» 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/1607-pg55-part22/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1607-pg55-part22:e3:1
# text = Which individual was designated by Oz to govern the Emerald City during his absence?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	govern	govern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | past · passive | Oz | which individual |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **govern** | to-infinitive | Oz *not said here* | the Emerald City |  |  | during Oz's absence |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 3 | **absent** |  | Oz |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Scarecrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1607-pg55-part22:e3:o1:1
# text = The Scarecrow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Tin Woodman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1607-pg55-part22:e3:o2:1
# text = The Tin Woodman
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1607-pg55-part22:e3:o3:1
# text = The Lion
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	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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The soldier with whiskers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1607-pg55-part22:e3:o4:1
# text = The soldier with whiskers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	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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