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title: Random, but who tossed the Scarecrow's clothes up the tree? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Random, but who tossed the Scarecrow's clothes up the tree? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1602 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 17: Dorothy melts the Witch, frees the Winkies, and rescues her friends» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 17: Dorothy melts the…

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Random, but who tossed the Scarecrow's clothes up the tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** toss · **To what, where:** clothes

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1602 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 17: Dorothy melts the Witch, frees the Winkies, and rescues her friends» 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/1602-pg55-part17/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1602-pg55-part17:t10:1
# text = Random, but who tossed the Scarecrow's clothes up the tree?
1	Random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past |  | the Scarecrow's clothes |  |  |  | up the tree | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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The Winkies did that thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1602-pg55-part17:t10:o1:1
# text = The Winkies did that thing
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the Winkies | that thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The tinsmiths did that stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1602-pg55-part17:t10:o2:1
# text = The tinsmiths did that stuff
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tinsmiths	tinsmith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the tinsmiths | that stuff |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Witch did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1602-pg55-part17:t10:o3:1
# text = The Witch did
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the Witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Winged Monkeys did that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1602-pg55-part17:t10:o4:1
# text = The Winged Monkeys did that
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	Monkeys	Monkeys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | the Winged Monkeys | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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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