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title: What did Oz promise to bestow upon the Scarecrow and the Lion respec… — The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Oz promise to bestow upon the Scarecrow and the Lion respectively on the following morning? Exam question 4 of lesson 1605 «The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part 20: Oz confesses he is a humbug and shows how his tricks worked.» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Exam question 4 · The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part…

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What did Oz promise to bestow upon the Scarecrow and the Lion respectively on the following morning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oz · **What happens:** promise, bestow, follow

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1605 «The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part 20: Oz confesses he is a humbug and shows how his tricks worked.» 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/1605-pg55-part20/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:e4:1
# text = What did Oz promise to bestow upon the Scarecrow and the Lion respectively on the following morning?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Oz |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bestow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Oz *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | upon the Scarecrow and the Lion; respectively *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Brains for the Scarecrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:e4:o1:1
# text = Brains for the Scarecrow
1	Brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Scarecrow	scarecrow	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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Brains upon the Scarecrow and courage upon the Lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:e4:o2:1
# text = Brains upon the Scarecrow and courage upon the Lion
1	Brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A heart and a brain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:e4:o3:1
# text = A heart and a brain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Courage for the Lion and a heart for the Tin Woodman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:e4:o4:1
# text = Courage for the Lion and a heart for the Tin Woodman
1	Courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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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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