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title: Wasn't the feast well peak, with stacks of sweets and buns? — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasn't the feast well peak, with stacks of sweets and buns? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 653 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and Tina trick the dragon back into chains, and he becomes the first cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 6 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wasn't the feast well peak, with stacks of sweets and buns?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** feast

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 653 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and Tina trick the dragon back into chains, and he becomes the first cat» 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/653-pg23661-part21/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:653-pg23661-part21:t6:1
# text = Wasn't the feast well peak, with stacks of sweets and buns?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	stacks	stack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	buns	bun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | the feast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from the very start to the very end, with buns and pies galore

<!-- fold The tree, 19 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:653-pg23661-part21:t6:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from the very start to the very end, with buns and pies galore
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	buns	bun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	galore	galore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | bare sweet stuff and buns and pies and galore |  | the start to the end |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from start to finish, and the mayor even ate the sugar bowl

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:653-pg23661-part21:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from start to finish, and the mayor even ate the sugar bowl
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | bare sweet stuff |  | start |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | infinitive | start *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | past | the mayor | the sugar bowl |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from start to finish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:653-pg23661-part21:t6:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it was bare sweet stuff from start to finish
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | bare sweet stuff |  | start |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was bare savoury food, no sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:653-pg23661-part21:t6:o4:1
# text = Nah, it was bare savoury food, no sweets
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	savoury	savoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | bare savoury food and no sweets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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