Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

what were all those bones lying around for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bones · What happens: be, lie around · To what, where: bones

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 bones	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bones	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bones	det:predet
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 bones	det
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bones	acl
7	around	around	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	6 lying	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bones	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		all bones					tree rules
2	lie around	gerund	all bones not said here					around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

a huge pile of bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pile	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pile	amod
3	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bones	case
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pile	nmod

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

Option 2

the giant's old meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meals	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meals	amod
5	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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