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title: What did the children inform the dragon was approaching the town? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the children inform the dragon was approaching the town? Exam question 3 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 an
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# Exam question 3 · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…

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What did the children inform the dragon was approaching the town?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** children, dragon · **What happens:** do, inform, approach · **To what, where:** town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e3:1
# text = What did the children inform the dragon was approaching the town?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	inform	inform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | present | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **approach** | past · progressive | the dragon | the town |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |

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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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a wild boar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e3:o1:1
# text = a wild boar
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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a lame giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e3:o2:1
# text = a lame giant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e3:o3:1
# text = a dragon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a hungry wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:e3:o4:1
# text = a hungry wolf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	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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