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title: By what means did the Tin Woodman surmount the wall? — Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the Tin Woodman surmount the wall? Exam question 3 of lesson 1608 «Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fighting trees and a white china wall» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 3 · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

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By what means did the Tin Woodman surmount the wall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tin Woodman · **What happens:** mean, surmount · **To what, where:** wall

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1608 «Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fighting trees and a white china wall» 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/1608-pg55-part23/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e3:1
# text = By what means did the Tin Woodman surmount the wall?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	surmount	surmount	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **surmount** | past · do-support | the Tin Woodman | the wall |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-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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By wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e3:o1:1
# text = By wings
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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By a wooden ladder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e3:o2:1
# text = By a wooden ladder
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By a rope bridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e3:o3:1
# text = By a rope bridge
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By a stone stair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:e3:o4:1
# text = By a stone stair
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stair	stair	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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