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title: Upon whom did the companions alight when they descended the first wa… — Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon whom did the companions alight when they descended the first wall? Exam question 1 of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Exam question 1 · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

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Upon whom did the companions alight when they descended the first wall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** companions · **What happens:** do, descend · **To what, where:** companions, first wall

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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/1609-pg55-part24/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:e1:1
# text = Upon whom did the companions alight when they descended the first wall?
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	alight	alight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the companions |  |  |  | alight *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Eventuality |
| 2 | **descend** | past | companions *= companion* | the first wall |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=Theme |

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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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Upon the Scarecrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:e1:o1:1
# text = Upon the Scarecrow
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	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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Upon the Tin Woodman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:e1:o2:1
# text = Upon the Tin Woodman
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	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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Onto Dorothy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:e1:o3:1
# text = Onto Dorothy
1	Onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	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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On the Lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:e1:o4:1
# text = On the Lion
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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