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title: the drakling wanted food, right? what'd it ask for? — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics
description: the drakling wanted food, right? what'd it ask for? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

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the drakling wanted food, right? what'd it ask for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** drakling · **What happens:** want, ask · **To what, where:** food

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» 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/659-pg23661-part27/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t7:1
# text = the drakling wanted food, right? what'd it ask for?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the drakling | food |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | drakling |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

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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}

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a cup of cold tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t7:o1:1
# text = a cup of cold tea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bowl of soup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t7:o2:1
# text = a bowl of soup
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the warm basin of fire the cockatrice kept burning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t7:o3:1
# text = the warm basin of fire the cockatrice kept burning
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the warm basin of fire |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | the warm basin of fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a basin of fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t7:o4:1
# text = a basin of fire
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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