---
title: Which item did the dragon demand from the blacksmith as a pledge? — Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which item did the dragon demand from the blacksmith as a pledge? Exam question 1 of lesson 651 «Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: John finds a dragon in the dungeon and chains it up with his baby as a pledge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/651-pg23661-part19/e1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Blacksmith and th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/651-pg23661-part19/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which item did the dragon demand from the blacksmith as a pledge?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** item · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** dragon demand, blacksmith

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 651 «Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: John finds a dragon in the dungeon and chains it up with his baby as a pledge» 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/651-pg23661-part19/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:e1:1
# text = Which item did the dragon demand from the blacksmith as a pledge?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which item | the dragon demand |  | the blacksmith |  | as a pledge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That which the blacksmith valued most

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:e1:o1:1
# text = That which the blacksmith valued most
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **value** | past | That | most |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That which the king had given him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:e1:o2:1
# text = That which the king had given him
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect | the king | That | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That which the dragon wanted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:e1:o3:1
# text = That which the dragon wanted
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His hammer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:e1:o4:1
# text = His hammer
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and th…, test 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/651-pg23661-part19/t14/)
- next →: [Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and th…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/651-pg23661-part19/e2/)
- ↑ back to [Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: John finds a dragon in the dungeon and chains it up with his baby as a pledge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/651-pg23661-part19/)