Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

What was the stated purpose of the approaching officer's visit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated purpose, visit, approaching officer · What happens: be, state, purpose, visit

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 purpose	det
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 purpose	amod
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 visit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 officer	det
8	approaching	approaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 officer	compound
9	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visit	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 officer	case
11	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purpose	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	past	the stated purpose of the approaching officer's visit	tree rules
2	state speech: other	participle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	purpose		the approaching officer's visit	nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
4	visit		the approaching officer	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

conveying the narrator to the capital for trial by the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	conveying	convey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrator	det
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 capital	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 trial	case
8	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	gerund		the narrator	the capital			for trial; by the king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent narrator=Topic to capital=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

conveying the narrator to the capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	conveying	convey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrator	det
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 capital	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	gerund		the narrator	the capital				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent narrator=Topic to capital=Recipient

Option 3

transporting the narrator to the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	transporting	transport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrator	det
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 transporting	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 transporting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transport	gerund		the narrator		the court			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent narrator=Theme to court=Destination

Option 4

conveying the narrator to the capital city and beyond it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	conveying	convey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrator	det
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 city	compound
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conveying	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 it	cc
9	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 city	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	gerund		the narrator	the capital city				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent narrator=Topic to city=Recipient

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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