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title: Who found him and dragged him back to town? — Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchb… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who found him and dragged him back to town? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 196 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hungry brother eats an imaginary feast, and the barber revives the dead hunchback» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

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Who found him and dragged him back to town?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** find, drag back · **To what, where:** him, town

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 196 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hungry brother eats an imaginary feast, and the barber revives the dead hunchback» 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/196-pg128-part36/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:196-pg128-part36:t8:1
# text = Who found him and dragged him back to town?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **drag back** | past |  | him *= he* |  | town |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to town=Destination |

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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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some passing soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:196-pg128-part36:t8:o1:1
# text = some passing soldiers
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 shepherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:196-pg128-part36:t8:o2:1
# text = a shepherd
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	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 band of soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:196-pg128-part36:t8:o3:1
# text = a band of soldiers
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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a passing caravan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:196-pg128-part36:t8:o4:1
# text = a passing caravan
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	passing	passing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	caravan	caravan	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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