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title: wait, why'd they bounce out of the castle? — Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, why'd they bounce out of the castle? Test 6 · ★ 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 wa
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

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wait, why'd they bounce out of the castle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, they · **What happens:** wait, bounce · **To what, where:** castle

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t6:1
# text = wait, why'd they bounce out of the castle?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bounce	bounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bounce** | present | they |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out castle=Trajectory |

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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}

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to find the boats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t6:o1:1
# text = to find the boats
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the boats |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
because the giant had chased them out of the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t6:o2:1
# text = because the giant had chased them out of the hall
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past · perfect · passive |  | the giant |  | the hall |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to wait by their rafts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t6:o3:1
# text = to wait by their rafts
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by their rafts | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by raft=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to fetch some food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:t6:o4:1
# text = to fetch some food
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | some food |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

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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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