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title: Toward which point of the compass did the travelers direct their jou… — Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toward which point of the compass did the travelers direct their journey? Exam question 1 of lesson 1608 «Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fighting trees and a white china wall» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 1 · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

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Toward which point of the compass did the travelers direct their journey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** travelers · **What happens:** direct, point, journey · **To what, where:** journey, compass

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1608 «Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fighting trees and a white china wall» 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/1608-pg55-part23/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e1:1
# text = Toward which point of the compass did the travelers direct their journey?
1	Toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	direct	direct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **direct** | past · do-support | the travelers | travelers's journey |  |  |  | toward which point of the compass | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **point** |  |  | the compass |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **journey** |  | travelers *= traveler* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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 {#o1}

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The Southern lands of the Quadlings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e1:o1:1
# text = The Southern lands of the Quadlings
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Quadlings	quadling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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The South

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e1:o2:1
# text = The South
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	South	South	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 East

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e1:o3:1
# text = The East
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	East	East	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 South, toward the Land of Glinda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e1:o4:1
# text = The South, toward the Land of Glinda
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Glinda	Glinda	PROPN	NNP	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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