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description: Which bossy dragon is guarding the golden apples, like a proper watchdog? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 527 «Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus stamps out a fountain and the Hesperides lose their golden apples» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus…

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Which bossy dragon is guarding the golden apples, like a proper watchdog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bossy dragon · **What happens:** guard · **To what, where:** golden apples

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 527 «Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus stamps out a fountain and the Hesperides lose their golden apples» 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/527-pg22381-part33/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:t8:1
# text = Which bossy dragon is guarding the golden apples, like a proper watchdog?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
2	bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	watchdog	watchdog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present · progressive | bossy dragon | the golden apples |  |  |  | like a proper watchdog | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:t8:o1:1
# text = Ion
1	Ion	ion	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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Argus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:t8:o2:1
# text = Argus
1	Argus	Argus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:t8:o3:1
# text = Pan
1	Pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Ladon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:527-pg22381-part33:t8:o4:1
# text = Ladon
1	Ladon	Ladon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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