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title: Was the Princess mint at sums or what? — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the Princess mint at sums or what? Test 7 · ★ 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 question and of each opti
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w…

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Was the Princess mint at sums or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Princess mint, sums

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This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:t7:1
# text = Was the Princess mint at sums or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Princess mint |  | sums |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Pretty decent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:t7:o1:1
# text = Pretty decent
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Rubbish at them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:t7:o2:1
# text = Rubbish at them
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Awful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:t7:o3:1
# text = Awful
1	Awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:t7:o4:1
# text = Bad
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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