Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

what did the cave smell like, all bones and dead folk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: cave smell

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 186 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becomes rich on a strange island, then is buried alive with his dead wife and survives by killing newcomers.» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
4	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	compound
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	like	like	INTJ	_	5 smell	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bones	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bones	det
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 folk	cc
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folk	amod
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the cave smell and all bones and dead folk					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

rotten bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bones	amod
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

bad air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a vast vault of bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a vast vault of bones and rotting bodies stacked up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vault	det
2	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vault	amod
3	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bones	case
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vault	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bodies	cc
7	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bodies	amod
8	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bones	conj
9	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bodies	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stacked	compound:prt
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stacked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stack up	participle		rotting bodies not said here				high property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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