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title: Which of the following did the old crow state to be the only thing o… — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following did the old crow state to be the only thing of value in this world? Exam question 1 of lesson 1590 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow longs for brains, and the Tin Woodman is freed from rust» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Exam question 1 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

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Which of the following did the old crow state to be the only thing of value in this world?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, be · **To what, where:** only thing

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1590 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow longs for brains, and the Tin Woodman is freed from rust» 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/1590-pg55-part5/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:e1:1
# text = Which of the following did the old crow state to be the only thing of value in this world?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the only thing |  |  |  | of value in this world | 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 {#o1}

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Being clever and kind to others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:e1:o1:1
# text = Being clever and kind to others
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to others; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Courage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:e1:o2:1
# text = Courage
1	Courage	courage	NOUN	NN	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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Money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:e1:o3:1
# text = Money
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Brains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:e1:o4:1
# text = Brains
1	Brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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