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title: Lowkey, why was Dorothy so eager to get back? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, why was Dorothy so eager to get back? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

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Lowkey, why was Dorothy so eager to get back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** be, get back

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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/1611-pg55-part26/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t3:1
# text = Lowkey, why was Dorothy so eager to get back?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	1	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Lowkey |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get back** | to-infinitive | Lowkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Aunt Em would be worried sick about her safety

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t3:o1:1
# text = Aunt Em would be worried sick about her safety
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Aunt |  |  |  |  | about her safety; sick *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Aunt Em would be worried

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t3:o2:1
# text = Aunt Em would be worried
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Em *= they* | Aunt *not said here* |  |  |  | worried *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Uncle Henry was waiting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t3:o3:1
# text = Uncle Henry was waiting
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · progressive | Uncle Henry |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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because Aunt Em would be very worried about her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t3:o4:1
# text = because Aunt Em would be very worried about her
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Em	Em	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Aunt |  |  |  |  | about her *= she*; worried *property* | tree rules |

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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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