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title: no cap, how many legs did that cursed axe chop off? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, how many legs did that cursed axe chop off? Test 3 · ★ 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 of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 3 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman te…

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no cap, how many legs did that cursed axe chop off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** curse, chop off

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This is test 3 · ★ 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t3:1
# text = no cap, how many legs did that cursed axe chop off?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chop off** | past · do-support | no cap and many legs |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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 toe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t3:o1:1
# text = a toe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toe	toe	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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both of his legs, like the whole thing, cut right off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t3:o2:1
# text = both of his legs, like the whole thing, cut right off
1	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	off	off	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t3:o3:1
# text = two legs
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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one leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t3:o4:1
# text = one leg
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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