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title: What cause did the Wicked Witch assign for the imprisonment and star… — Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorot… · tree and pragmatics
description: What cause did the Wicked Witch assign for the imprisonment and starving of the Cowardly Lion? Exam question 3 of lesson 1601 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch's slave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 3 · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

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What cause did the Wicked Witch assign for the imprisonment and starving of the Cowardly Lion?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, do, starve · **To what, where:** Wicked Witch assign

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1601 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch's slave» 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/1601-pg55-part16/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:e3:1
# text = What cause did the Wicked Witch assign for the imprisonment and starving of the Cowardly Lion?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	assign	assign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the Wicked Witch assign |  |  |  | for the imprisonment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assign=Eventuality |
| 3 | **starve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the Cowardly Lion | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His refusal to be harnessed like a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:e3:o1:1
# text = His refusal to be harnessed like a horse
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harness** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | like a horse | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **refuse** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He refused food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:e3:o2:1
# text = He refused food
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | He | food |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He hid away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:e3:o3:1
# text = He hid away
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide away** | past | He |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His refusal to be used as a beast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:e3:o4:1
# text = His refusal to be used as a beast
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as a beast | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **refuse** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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