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title: Dude, how long ago did the farmer make him? — Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy mee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, how long ago did the farmer make him? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1589 «Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecrow who wants brains and joins her on the yellow brick road» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 10 · ★ · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…

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Dude, how long ago did the farmer make him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** farmer

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1589 «Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecrow who wants brains and joins her on the yellow brick road» 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/1589-pg55-part4/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t10:1
# text = Dude, how long ago did the farmer make him?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | Dude | farmer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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Day before yesterday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t10:o1:1
# text = Day before yesterday
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Way back in spring, before the big harvest in fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t10:o2:1
# text = Way back in spring, before the big harvest in fall
1	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ages ago, back when the corn was still green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t10:o3:1
# text = Ages ago, back when the corn was still green
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the corn |  |  |  | still | ago, green *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like two weeks back lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1589-pg55-part4:t10:o4:1
# text = Like two weeks back lol
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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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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