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title: Upon what day of the week did the Red Dragon descend upon the common? — Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what day of the week did the Red Dragon descend upon the common? Exam question 2 of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Exam question 2 · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…

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Upon what day of the week did the Red Dragon descend upon the common?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Red Dragon · **What happens:** descend

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» 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/634-pg23661-part2/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:e2:1
# text = Upon what day of the week did the Red Dragon descend upon the common?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | past · do-support | the Red Dragon |  |  |  | day | upon the common | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Sunday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:e2:o1:1
# text = Sunday
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Saturday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:e2:o2:1
# text = Saturday
1	Saturday	Saturday	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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Early on the first weekend day of the week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:e2:o3:1
# text = Early on the first weekend day of the week
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tuesday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:e2:o4:1
# text = Tuesday
1	Tuesday	Tuesday	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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