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title: so the ground was covered in what, mate? — Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the ground was covered in what, mate? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 183 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escapes the diamond valley on an eagle's meat and sails home with the merchants.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

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so the ground was covered in what, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** cover · **To what, where:** ground

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 183 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escapes the diamond valley on an eagle's meat and sails home with the merchants.» 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/183-pg128-part23/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t6:1
# text = so the ground was covered in what, mate?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in what=Theme |

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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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diamonds, loads of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t6:o1:1
# text = diamonds, loads of them
1	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t6:o2:1
# text = bones
1	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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snakes and dry bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t6:o3:1
# text = snakes and dry bones
1	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sand and rocky shards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:183-pg128-part23:t6:o4:1
# text = sand and rocky shards
1	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shards	shard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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