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title: so like, what was the yellow road made of? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: so like, what was the yellow road made of? Test 9 · ★ 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's choice 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 6: the Tin Woodman te…

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so like, what was the yellow road made of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** yellow road

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t9:1
# text = so like, what was the yellow road made of?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the yellow road |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the yellow road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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yellow clay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t9:o1:1
# text = yellow clay
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clay	clay	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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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t9:o2:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	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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golden sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t9:o3:1
# text = golden sand
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sand	sand	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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yellow bricks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1591-pg55-part6:t9:o4:1
# text = yellow bricks
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bricks	brick	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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