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title: so the Beast was just skins sewn up, lowkey lame? — The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the Beast was just skins sewn up, lowkey lame? Test 2 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 2 · ★ · The Wizard of Oz, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, part…

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so the Beast was just skins sewn up, lowkey lame?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Beast · **What happens:** be, sew up · **To what, where:** skins

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This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:t2:1
# text = so the Beast was just skins sewn up, lowkey lame?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lame	lame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Beast | skins and lowkey lame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sew up** | participle |  | skins and lowkey lame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Nah, bears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:t2:o1:1
# text = Nah, bears
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yup, skins sewn together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:t2:o2:1
# text = Yup, skins sewn together
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | participle |  | skins *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, it was a real lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:t2:o3:1
# text = Nope, it was a real lion
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a real lion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, real beast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1605-pg55-part20:t2:o4:1
# text = Nope, real beast
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beast	beast	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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