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title: Who's the elephant that's dead clever, then? — Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the elephant that's dead clever, then? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 4 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

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Who's the elephant that's dead clever, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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/638-pg23661-part6/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t4:1
# text = Who's the elephant that's dead clever, then?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | then | clever *property* | 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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Dumbo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t4:o1:1
# text = Dumbo
1	Dumbo	Dumbo	PROPN	NNP	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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Ned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t4:o2:1
# text = Ned
1	Ned	Ned	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fido

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t4:o3:1
# text = Fido
1	Fido	Fido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nelly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t4:o4:1
# text = Nelly
1	Nelly	Nelly	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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