Exam question 1 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

Upon which object did the vessel first sustain fatal damage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, sustain · To what, where: vessel, fatal damage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1486 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked on a rock, tied down, fed by tiny people» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 object	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vessel	det
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 sustain	advmod
8	sustain	sustain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 damage	amod
10	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sustain	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the vessel					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Eventuality
2	sustain	present	which object not said here	fatal damage				first property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent damage=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

a reef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reef	det
2	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a submerged rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	submerged	submerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	submerge	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a submerged rock near the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	submerged	submerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	submerge	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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