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title: Okay, what did the Scarecrow tell the Woodman to scatter over Dorothy? — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay, what did the Scarecrow tell the Woodman to scatter over Dorothy? Test 8 · ★ 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, with the depend
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# Test 8 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

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Okay, what did the Scarecrow tell the Woodman to scatter over Dorothy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Scarecrow · **What happens:** do, tell, scatter · **To what, where:** Woodman, Dorothy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t8:1
# text = Okay, what did the Scarecrow tell the Woodman to scatter over Dorothy?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Scarecrow |  | the Woodman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **scatter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Dorothy |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over dorothy=Destination |

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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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Dried corn husks and hay from the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t8:o1:1
# text = Dried corn husks and hay from the field
1	Dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	husks	husk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t8:o2:1
# text = Leaves
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Straw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t8:o3:1
# text = Straw
1	Straw	straw	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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Pieces of the broken scarecrow's stuffing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t8:o4:1
# text = Pieces of the broken scarecrow's stuffing
1	Pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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