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title: Dead bees looked like what, bro? — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead bees looked like what, bro? Test 9 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the West,…

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Dead bees looked like what, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dead bees · **What happens:** look

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t9:1
# text = Dead bees looked like what, bro?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Dead bees |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Piles of soot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t9:o1:1
# text = Piles of soot
1	Piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Little heaps of fine coal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t9:o2:1
# text = Little heaps of fine coal
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tiny heaps of black ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t9:o3:1
# text = Tiny heaps of black ash
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Black dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1600-pg55-part15:t9:o4:1
# text = Black dust
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dust	dust	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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