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title: What was the total number of occasions on which the charm of the Gol… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the total number of occasions on which the charm of the Golden Cap could command the Winged Monkeys? Exam question 3 of lesson 1600 «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West, part 15: wolves, crows and bees all fail, so the Witch reaches for her Golden Cap» of the books cour
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# Exam question 3 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

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What was the total number of occasions on which the charm of the Golden Cap could command the Winged Monkeys?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** total number, charm · **What happens:** be, command, wing · **To what, where:** Winged Monkeys, occasions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1600 «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West, part 15: wolves, crows and bees all fail, so the Witch reaches for her Golden Cap» 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/1600-pg55-part15/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:e3:1
# text = What was the total number of occasions on which the charm of the Golden Cap could command the Winged Monkeys?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the total number of occasions |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **command** | could | the charm of the Golden Cap | the Winged Monkeys |  | occasions |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme on which=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:e3:o1:1
# text = Three
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:e3:o2:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:e3:o3:1
# text = One
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three occasions in total only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:e3:o4:1
# text = Three occasions in total only
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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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