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title: Be honest, what did the Scarecrow ask Glinda? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, what did the Scarecrow ask Glinda? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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 wrong.
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# Test 14 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

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Be honest, what did the Scarecrow ask Glinda?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Scarecrow · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** Glinda

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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/1611-pg55-part26/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t14:1
# text = Be honest, what did the Scarecrow ask Glinda?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
9	Glinda	Glinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | the Scarecrow |  | Glinda |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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"Am I really wonderful, or just a stuffed scarecrow?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t14:o1:1
# text = "Am I really wonderful, or just a stuffed scarecrow?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stuff** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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"Am I really wonderful?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t14:o2:1
# text = "Am I really wonderful?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"Will I ever be wonderful enough to rule?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t14:o3:1
# text = "Will I ever be wonderful enough to rule?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  | ever | enough, wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Do I have any brains?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t14:o4:1
# text = "Do I have any brains?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | any brains |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |

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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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