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title: who was the guardian at the gate, the one with the spectacles? — Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was the guardian at the gate, the one with the spectacles? Test 11 · ★ 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 question and of each o
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# Test 11 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

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who was the guardian at the gate, the one with the spectacles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** guardian, gate

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t11:1
# text = who was the guardian at the gate, the one with the spectacles?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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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 Guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t11:o1:1
# text = the Guard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	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 gatekeeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t11:o2:1
# text = the gatekeeper
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gatekeeper	gatekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the Guardian of the Gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t11:o3:1
# text = the Guardian of the Gate
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Guardian of the Hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t11:o4:1
# text = the Guardian of the Hall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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