Black can

A bit harder than the first example. I was going for tossed.

Other possibilities include:

- threw

- flung

- hurled

- catapulted

- heaved

With the exception of catapulted most of these would be known by an eight grade reader.

My personal opinion is that CASSIE would have a better shot at figuring a consequence for tossed in this example than say deceased in the first example. Consider this sequence of events:

1. CASSIE keeps track of time. It knows that at time A the can was in Tom's hand as he was drinking out of it.

2. CASSIE knows that at time B it was in the tall grass.

3. CASSIE uses predefined rules to determine that if something was in Tom's hand at time A and after being tossed its next known location was the grass on the ground then possibly tossed means to launch something from point X to point Y through the air.