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title: No cap, what is Mr. Joker always trying to do? — Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, what is Mr. Joker always trying to do? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 5 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

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No cap, what is Mr. Joker always trying to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cap, Mr. Joker · **What happens:** be, try, do · **To what, where:** Mr. Joker

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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/1609-pg55-part24/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t5:1
# text = No cap, what is Mr. Joker always trying to do?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Joker	joker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | no cap | Mr. Joker |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | Mr. Joker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mr. Joker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Dance on his toes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t5:o1:1
# text = Dance on his toes
1	Dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Turn somersaults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t5:o2:1
# text = Turn somersaults
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | somersaults |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stand upon his head and spin around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t5:o3:1
# text = Stand upon his head and spin around
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | his head and spin |  | around *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Stand upon his head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t5:o4:1
# text = Stand upon his head
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | his head |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location |

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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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