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title: what were all those bones lying around for? — Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: what were all those bones lying around for? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

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what were all those bones lying around for?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/184-pg128-part24/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t11:1
# text = what were all those bones lying around for?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a huge pile of bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t11:o1:1
# text = a huge pile of bones
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the giant's old meals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t11:o2:1
# text = the giant's old meals
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t11:o3:1
# text = food
1	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t11:o4:1
# text = dinner
1	dinner	dinner	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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**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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