--- title: Wicked, so who did the knife-boy scream at when the boot went mad? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics description: Wicked, so who did the knife-boy scream at when the boot went mad? Test 4 · ★ 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 pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/640-pg23661-part8/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/640-pg23661-part8/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon… Wicked, so who did the knife-boy scream at when the boot went mad? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wicked, boot · **What happens:** do, go · **To what, where:** boy scream This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t4:1 # text = Wicked, so who did the knife-boy scream at when the boot went mad? 1 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 scream scream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 at at SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 16 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Wicked | the boy scream | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | past | the boot | | | | | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} the lizard that crawled out of the boot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t4:o1:1 # text = the lizard that crawled out of the boot 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crawl** | past | the lizard | | | the boot | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out boot=Trajectory | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the lizard in the boot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t4:o2:1 # text = the lizard in the boot 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the boot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t4:o3:1 # text = the boot 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the knife-boy's mum ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t4:o4:1 # text = the knife-boy's mum 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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