--- title: Proper mental, but how did the King's blood make whirlpools anyway? — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics description: Proper mental, but how did the King's blood make whirlpools anyway? Test 5 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/650-pg23661-part18/t5/) [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/) / [The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/650-pg23661-part18/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin… Proper mental, but how did the King's blood make whirlpools anyway? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mental, King · **What happens:** do, whirlpool, make · **To what, where:** blood make This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t5:1 # text = Proper mental, but how did the King's blood make whirlpools anyway? 1 Proper properly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 make make NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 12 whirlpools whirlpool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | mental *not said here* | the King's blood make | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent make=Eventuality | | 2 | **whirlpool** | present | mental | | | | | anyway *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | | the King | | | | | | nom make «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} The sea was angry ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t5:o1:1 # text = The sea was angry 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the sea | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} The sea wanted to throw it out ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t5:o2:1 # text = The sea wanted to throw it out 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | the sea | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **throw out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the sea *not said here* | sea | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The sea kept trying to get rid of it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t5:o3:1 # text = The sea kept trying to get rid of it 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | the sea | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | gerund | the sea *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the sea *not said here* | | | | | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} It was the sea's own fault ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:650-pg23661-part18:t5:o4:1 # text = It was the sea's own fault 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | It | the sea's own fault | | | | | tree rules | **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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