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title: what'd the woodman build to climb it? — Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of… · tree and pragmatics
description: what'd the woodman build to climb it? Test 8 · ★ 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 choice was r
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# Test 8 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 23: the fig…

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what'd the woodman build to climb it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** woodman · **What happens:** build, climb · **To what, where:** woodman

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t8:1
# text = what'd the woodman build to climb it?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woodman	woodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the woodman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | to-infinitive | the woodman *not said here* | woodman |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=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 {#o1}

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a tall wooden ladder made of logs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t8:o1:1
# text = a tall wooden ladder made of logs
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a tall wooden ladder *not said here* |  |  |  | of logs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a wagon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t8:o2:1
# text = a wagon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a ladder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t8:o3:1
# text = a ladder
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladder	ladder	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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a rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1608-pg55-part23:t8:o4:1
# text = a rope
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	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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