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title: What did he grab before riding off? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did he grab before riding off? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…

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What did he grab before riding off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** grab, ride off

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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/1319-pg3454-part44/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t9:1
# text = What did he grab before riding off?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **ride off** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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an apple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t9:o1:1
# text = an apple
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	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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a berry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t9:o2:1
# text = a berry
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	berry	berry	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 red plum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t9:o3:1
# text = a red plum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plum	plum	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 ripe pear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t9:o4:1
# text = a ripe pear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pear	pear	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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