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title: Those rocks, how far off were they, roughly? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Those rocks, how far off were they, roughly? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

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Those rocks, how far off were they, roughly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rocks · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rocks

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» 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/1495-pg503-part82/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t6:1
# text = Those rocks, how far off were they, roughly?
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that rocks | rocks *= rock* |  |  |  | roughly *property* | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Four leagues, dead far, past the big sandy plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t6:o1:1
# text = Four leagues, dead far, past the big sandy plain
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	past	past	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two leagues, pretty far

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t6:o2:1
# text = Two leagues, pretty far
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Four leagues, dead far, like a day's ride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t6:o3:1
# text = Four leagues, dead far, like a day's ride
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** |  | a day |  |  |  |  |  | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Four leagues, dead far

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t6:o4:1
# text = Four leagues, dead far
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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