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title: so what did the island do when the tail came loose? — Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rot… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did the island do when the tail came loose? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 3 · ★ · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

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so what did the island do when the tail came loose?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** island, tail · **What happens:** do, come

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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/639-pg23661-part7/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t3:1
# text = so what did the island do when the tail came loose?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	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	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the island |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the tail |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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spun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t3:o1:1
# text = spun
1	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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drifted out to sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t3:o2:1
# text = drifted out to sea
1	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift out** | participle |  |  |  | sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |

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

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span like a top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t3:o3:1
# text = span like a top
1	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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spun round and round the sea forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t3:o4:1
# text = spun round and round the sea forever
1	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin round** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **round** | infinitive |  | the sea |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient |

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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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