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title: Did Death grab him from the front or the back, bruv? — Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Death grab him from the front or the back, bruv? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…

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Did Death grab him from the front or the back, bruv?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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/692-pg2435-part32/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:t4:1
# text = Did Death grab him from the front or the back, bruv?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past · do-support | Death | him *= he* |  | the front or the back and bruv |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from front=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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Left side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:t4:o1:1
# text = Left side
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Front

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:t4:o2:1
# text = Front
1	Front	front	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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From behind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:t4:o3:1
# text = From behind
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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From the left

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:t4:o4:1
# text = From the left
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	left	left	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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