--- title: Which of Drakestail's friends extinguishes the furnace intended for… — Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duc… · tree and pragmatics description: Which of Drakestail's friends extinguishes the furnace intended for his destruction? Exam question 3 of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1551-pg540-part48/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1551-pg540-part48/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien… Which of Drakestail's friends extinguishes the furnace intended for his destruction? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** furnace · **What happens:** extinguish, intend, destroy This is exam question 3 of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1551-pg540-part48/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:e3:1 # text = Which of Drakestail's friends extinguishes the furnace intended for his destruction? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 obj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 Drakestail Drakestail PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 6 extinguishes extinguish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 furnace furnace NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 intended intend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **extinguish** | present | | | | | | of Drakestail's friends | tree rules | | 2 | **intend** | past | the furnace | | | | | for furnace's destruction | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **destroy** | | furnace | | | | | | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} Comrade Wasp's-nest from the hollow tree ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:e3:o1:1 # text = Comrade Wasp's-nest from the hollow tree 1 Comrade comrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 Wasp's Wasp's PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Ladder ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:e3:o2:1 # text = Ladder 1 Ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} River ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:e3:o3:1 # text = River 1 River river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Lady-friend Ladder from the old wall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:e3:o4:1 # text = Lady-friend Ladder from the old wall 1 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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