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title: What was the ultimate fate of the dragon upon the sands? — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the ultimate fate of the dragon upon the sands? Exam question 4 of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 4 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w…

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What was the ultimate fate of the dragon upon the sands?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ultimate fate

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/649-pg23661-part17/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e4:1
# text = What was the ultimate fate of the dragon upon the sands?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the ultimate fate |  |  |  | of the dragon upon the sands | tree rules |

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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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Petrifaction into stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e4:o1:1
# text = Petrifaction into stone
1	Petrifaction	petrifaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Melted into the sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e4:o2:1
# text = Melted into the sand
1	Melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into sand=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Drowning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e4:o3:1
# text = Drowning
1	Drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Burnt to ash on the beach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e4:o4:1
# text = Burnt to ash on the beach
1	Burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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