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title: So what's the stone dragon doing these days then, just lying about? — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what's the stone dragon doing these days then, just lying about? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 650 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin dies and the whirlpools are explained» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin…

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So what's the stone dragon doing these days then, just lying about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stone dragon · **What happens:** be, do, lie · **To what, where:** stone dragon

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 650 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin dies and the whirlpools are explained» 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/650-pg23661-part18/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t11:1
# text = So what's the stone dragon doing these days then, just lying about?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the stone dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the stone dragon *not said here* |  |  |  | then; day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the stone dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Lying on the cliff where fishermen rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t11:o1:1
# text = Lying on the cliff where fishermen rest
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the cliff |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cliff=Location |
| 2 | **rest** | present | fishermen |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Lying on the sand where little kids play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t11:o2:1
# text = Lying on the sand where little kids play
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location |
| 2 | **play** | present | little kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Lying about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t11:o3:1
# text = Lying about
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sleeping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t11:o4:1
# text = Sleeping
1	Sleeping	sleeping	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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