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title: Which trade is practised by John, as is stated in the narrative? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which trade is practised by John, as is stated in the narrative? Exam question 1 of lesson 652 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dragon minds the baby, then fights a giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…

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Which trade is practised by John, as is stated in the narrative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** practise, state · **To what, where:** trade, narrative

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 652 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dragon minds the baby, then fights a giant» 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/652-pg23661-part20/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e1:1
# text = Which trade is practised by John, as is stated in the narrative?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | present · passive | John | which trade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **state** *speech: other* | present · passive | John *not said here* |  |  | the narrative |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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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blacksmith

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e1:o1:1
# text = blacksmith
1	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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carpenter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e1:o2:1
# text = carpenter
1	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a master blacksmith and tinsmith

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e1:o3:1
# text = a master blacksmith and tinsmith
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tinsmith	tinsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the town's blacksmith and farrier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e1:o4:1
# text = the town's blacksmith and farrier
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	farrier	farrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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