--- title: Seriously, why did the big dragons go to bed early? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics description: Seriously, why did the big dragons go to bed early? Test 9 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the que --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/640-pg23661-part8/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon… Seriously, why did the big dragons go to bed early? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big dragons · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** bed This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t9:1 # text = Seriously, why did the big dragons go to bed early? 1 Seriously seriously ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · do-support | the big dragons | | | bed | | early, seriously *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | 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} cos of the chill night air and the moon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t9:o1:1 # text = cos of the chill night air and the moon 1 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 chill chill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} cos of the morning sun ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t9:o2:1 # text = cos of the morning sun 1 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} cos they were scared of the chill night air ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t9:o3:1 # text = cos they were scared of the chill night air 1 cos cos SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 chill chill NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | they | | | | | of the night air; scared *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} cos of the chill night air ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t9:o4:1 # text = cos of the chill night air 1 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 chill chill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` 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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