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title: Oi, which dragon ate the lilies of the valley, the little ones? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, which dragon ate the lilies of the valley, the little ones? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 10 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Oi, which dragon ate the lilies of the valley, the little ones?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oi · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** lilies

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» 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/640-pg23661-part8/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t10:1
# text = Oi, which dragon ate the lilies of the valley, the little ones?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Oi and which dragon | the lilies of the valley and the little ones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the middle sized ones from the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t10:o1:1
# text = the middle sized ones from the garden
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sized	size	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **size** | past | the middle | ones |  | the garden |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one size of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t10:o2:1
# text = one size of them
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the mid-size lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t10:o3:1
# text = the mid-size lot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mid-size	mid-size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the ones that were the size of cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t10:o4:1
# text = the ones that were the size of cats
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the ones | the size |  |  |  | of cats | tree rules |

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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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