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title: no cap, what did the trees do to the scarecrow? — Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what did the trees do to the scarecrow? Test 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; Mova's ch
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# Test 3 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

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no cap, what did the trees do to the scarecrow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** trees

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This is test 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t3:1
# text = no cap, what did the trees do to the scarecrow?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap | the trees |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | no cap |  |  |  |  | to the scarecrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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hurled him at the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t3:o1:1
# text = hurled him at the wall
1	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurl** | past |  | him *= he* |  | the wall |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at wall=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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flung him at his friends and laughed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t3:o2:1
# text = flung him at his friends and laughed
1	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | at his friends | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at friend=Destination |
| 2 | **laugh** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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flung him at his friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t3:o3:1
# text = flung him at his friends
1	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | at his friends | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at friend=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tossed him in the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t3:o4:1
# text = tossed him in the grass
1	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past |  | him *= he* |  | the grass |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in grass=Destination |

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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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