--- title: Bro, how long did that Dragon take to die? — pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Princ… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, how long did that Dragon take to die? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1682-pg640-part6/t3/) [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/) / [pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Princ…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1682-pg640-part6/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chai… Bro, how long did that Dragon take to die? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** do, take, die This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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/1682-pg640-part6/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t3:1 # text = Bro, how long did that Dragon take to die? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | Bro *vocative*; long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | present | Dragon | | | | | | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | Dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Two days and two nights, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t3:o1:1 # text = Two days and two nights, bruv 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Three days and three nights, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t3:o2:1 # text = Three days and three nights, bruv 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Five days and a night, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t3:o3:1 # text = Five days and a night, bruv 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Like three weeks, bruv, it just kept on thrashing about ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:t3:o4:1 # text = Like three weeks, bruv, it just kept on thrashing about 1 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 on on SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 thrashing thrash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | bruv | | | | week | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **thrash about** | gerund | bruv *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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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