Exam question 2 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

To what condition were the surviving seamen reduced prior to the wreck?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: surviving seamen · What happens: survive, be

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reduced	obj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reduced	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seamen	det
6	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 seamen	amod
7	seamen	seaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reduced	nsubj
8	reduced	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 wreck	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 prior	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wreck	det
12	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reduced	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reduced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	gerund							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the surviving seamen					prior the wreck; reduce 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.

The options

Option 1

a very weak condition after months at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 condition	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 weak	advmod
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 condition	amod
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 months	case
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 condition	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod

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

Option 2

a very weak and sickly condition from thirst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 condition	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 weak	advmod
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 condition	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sickly	cc
5	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weak	conj
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 thirst	case
8	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 condition	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a very weak condition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 condition	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 weak	advmod
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 condition	amod
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a dangerously low state

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 state	det
2	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	_	3 low	advmod
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 state	amod
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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