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title: Which object did the man seize from the barber before fleeing the ho… — Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the man seize from the barber before fleeing the house? Exam question 1 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 1 · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

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Which object did the man seize from the barber before fleeing the house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** seize, flee · **To what, where:** house

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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/1547-pg540-part44/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e1:1
# text = Which object did the man seize from the barber before fleeing the house?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past · do-support | which object |  |  |  |  | from the barber | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from barber=Source |
| 2 | **flee** | gerund | which object *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Initial\_Location |

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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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the razor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e1:o1:1
# text = the razor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	razor	razor	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 coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e1:o2:1
# text = a coin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	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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the scissors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e1:o3:1
# text = the scissors
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 comb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e1:o4:1
# text = a comb
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comb	comb	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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