--- title: what did the cave smell like, all bones and dead folk? — Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: what did the cave smell like, all bones and dead folk? 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, with the d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/186-pg128-part26/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/186-pg128-part26/) / t7 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/186-pg128-part26/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t7:1 # text = what did the cave smell like, all bones and dead folk? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 like like INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} rotten bones ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t7:o1:1 # text = rotten bones 1 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} bad air ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t7:o2:1 # text = bad air 1 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} a vast vault of bones ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t7:o3:1 # text = a vast vault of bones 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 vault vault NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a vast vault of bones and rotting bodies stacked up high ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t7:o4:1 # text = a vast vault of bones and rotting bodies stacked up high 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 vault vault NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 stacked stack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 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. 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