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title: Which pet did the Dragon nick from the nursery? — Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which pet did the Dragon nick from the nursery? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 635 «Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a Manticora, then a Hippogriff, and chases the Dragon to the Pebbly Waste» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 9 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…

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Which pet did the Dragon nick from the nursery?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pet · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Dragon nick, nursery

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 635 «Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a Manticora, then a Hippogriff, and chases the Dragon to the Pebbly Waste» 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/635-pg23661-part3/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t9:1
# text = Which pet did the Dragon nick from the nursery?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	nick	Nick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which pet | the Dragon nick |  | the nursery |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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the golden crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t9:o1:1
# text = the golden crown
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the Rocking Horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t9:o2:1
# text = the Rocking Horse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Rocking	rocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	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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the toy trains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t9:o3:1
# text = the toy trains
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the teddy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t9:o4:1
# text = the teddy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teddy	teddy	NOUN	NN	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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