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title: What did the Munchkins state was connected with the silver shoes? — Oz, The Council with the Munchkins, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Munchkins state was connected with the silver shoes? Exam question 4 of lesson 1587 «Oz, The Council with the Munchkins, part 2: Dorothy meets the Munchkins after the house lands on the Wicked Witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 4 · Oz, The Council with the Munchkins, part 2: Dorothy meets…

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What did the Munchkins state was connected with the silver shoes?

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

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1587 «Oz, The Council with the Munchkins, part 2: Dorothy meets the Munchkins after the house lands on the Wicked Witch» 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/1587-pg55-part2/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1587-pg55-part2:e4:1
# text = What did the Munchkins state was connected with the silver shoes?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Munchkins	Munchkin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | past · passive · do-support |  | the Munchkins |  |  |  | with the silver shoes | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient what=Result |

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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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A charm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1587-pg55-part2:e4:o1:1
# text = A charm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charm	charm	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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Magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1587-pg55-part2:e4:o2:1
# text = Magic
1	Magic	magic	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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Some charm, though its nature was unknown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1587-pg55-part2:e4:o3:1
# text = Some charm, though its nature was unknown
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | charm's nature |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A spell, though its power was known

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1587-pg55-part2:e4:o4:1
# text = A spell, though its power was known
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	though	though	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | a spell though spell's power |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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