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title: What did the dragon pinch out of the sky, like a mega snatch? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the dragon pinch out of the sky, like a mega snatch? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 641 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry and Effie seek St. George, fail to wake him, and are seized by a dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 10 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry an…

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What did the dragon pinch out of the sky, like a mega snatch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** dragon pinch, sky

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 641 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 9: Harry and Effie seek St. George, fail to wake him, and are seized by a dragon» 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/641-pg23661-part9/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:641-pg23661-part9:t10:1
# text = What did the dragon pinch out of the sky, like a mega snatch?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mega	mega	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	snatch	snatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the dragon pinch |  | the sky |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinch=Eventuality |

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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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Effie and Harry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:641-pg23661-part9:t10:o1:1
# text = Effie and Harry
1	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Their sister Mabel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:641-pg23661-part9:t10:o2:1
# text = Their sister Mabel
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Mabel	Mabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Their dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:641-pg23661-part9:t10:o3:1
# text = Their dog
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dog	dog	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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Two cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:641-pg23661-part9:t10:o4:1
# text = Two cats
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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