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title: Yo, who actually slew the dragon, for real? — Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who actually slew the dragon, for real? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Test 1 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…

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Yo, who actually slew the dragon, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** slay · **To what, where:** dragon

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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/1941-pg7277-part78/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t1:1
# text = Yo, who actually slew the dragon, for real?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past |  | the dragon |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the shepherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t1:o1:1
# text = the shepherd
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the shepherd himself, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t1:o2:1
# text = the shepherd himself, no cap
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the coachman, no cap, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t1:o3:1
# text = the coachman, no cap, fr
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the shepherd's dog Pepper, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t1:o4:1
# text = the shepherd's dog Pepper, no cap
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Pepper	Pepper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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

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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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