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title: Bruv, what did the police use to trap the dragons, sticky stuff? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the police use to trap the dragons, sticky stuff? Test 12 · ★ 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 pragmat
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# Test 12 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

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Bruv, what did the police use to trap the dragons, sticky stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** police · **What happens:** do, use, trap · **To what, where:** dragons

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t12:1
# text = Bruv, what did the police use to trap the dragons, sticky stuff?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	trap	trap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | the police |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **trap** | to-infinitive | the police *not said here* | the dragons and sticky stuff |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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patent glue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t12:o1:1
# text = patent glue
1	patent	patent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	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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glue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t12:o2:1
# text = glue
1	glue	glue	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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a special patent glue on towers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t12:o3:1
# text = a special patent glue on towers
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	patent	patent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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birdlime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t12:o4:1
# text = birdlime
1	birdlime	birdlime	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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