--- title: "The ball broke the window because it was weak." What was weak? — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: "The ball broke the window because it was weak." What was weak? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t4/) [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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Olympiad: tricky comprehension](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tricky comprehension "The ball broke the window because it was weak." What was weak? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ball · **What happens:** break, be · **To what, where:** window This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the English 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/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "The ball broke the window because it was weak." ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:t4:1 # text = "The ball broke the window because it was weak." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** *in a quote* | past | the ball | the window | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | ball | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What was weak? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:t4:2 # text = What was weak? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Neither one ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:t4:o1:1 # text = Neither one 1 Neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The ball ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:t4:o2:1 # text = The ball 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The window ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:t4:o3:1 # text = The window 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Both of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:t4:o4:1 # text = Both of them 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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