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title: sus, the crows flew off because they thought he was what? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, the crows flew off because they thought he was what? Test 13 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

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sus, the crows flew off because they thought he was what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sus, crows · **What happens:** fly off, think, be

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This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t13:1
# text = sus, the crows flew off because they thought he was what?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** | past | sus |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | crows *= crow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | sus |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a munchkin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t13:o1:1
# text = a munchkin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	munchkin	munchkin	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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a giant wicked witch from the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t13:o2:1
# text = a giant wicked witch from the north
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a scarecrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t13:o3:1
# text = a scarecrow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	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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a dangerous wild animal from the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t13:o4:1
# text = a dangerous wild animal from the forest
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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