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title: What did the old woman offer the Wicked Witch in exchange for preven… — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the old woman offer the Wicked Witch in exchange for preventing the marriage? Exam question 4 of lesson 1591 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman tells how he lost his body and heart» 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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman te…

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What did the old woman offer the Wicked Witch in exchange for preventing the marriage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old woman, exchange · **What happens:** offer, prevent · **To what, where:** Wicked Witch, exchange, marriage

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1591 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman tells how he lost his body and heart» 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/1591-pg55-part6/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:e4:1
# text = What did the old woman offer the Wicked Witch in exchange for preventing the marriage?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	preventing	prevent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · do-support | the old woman | the Wicked Witch |  | exchange |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal witch=Theme |
| 2 | **prevent** | gerund | exchange *not said here* | the marriage |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme |

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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 goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:e4:o1:1
# text = A goat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Two sheep and a cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:e4:o2:1
# text = Two sheep and a cow
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three hens and a pig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:e4:o3:1
# text = Three hens and a pig
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:e4:o4:1
# text = Ten eggs
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	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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