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title: Dead, what did Zobeida grab from Sadie before the dogs? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead, what did Zobeida grab from Sadie before the dogs? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep
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# Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

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Dead, what did Zobeida grab from Sadie before the dogs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Zobeida · **What happens:** grab · **To what, where:** Sadie

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» 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/170-pg128-part10/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t14:1
# text = Dead, what did Zobeida grab from Sadie before the dogs?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past · do-support | Zobeida |  |  | Sadie | before the dogs |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from sadie=Source |

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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 rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t14:o1:1
# text = A rod
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rod	rod	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 dog chain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t14:o2:1
# text = A dog chain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A whip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t14:o3:1
# text = A whip
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whip	whip	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 cane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:170-pg128-part10:t14:o4:1
# text = A cane
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cane	cane	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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