Test 10 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…
did the big boss-man go on for ages?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big boss man · What happens: go on
This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 4 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 boss | punct |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ages | case |
| 10 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · do-support | the big boss man | for ages | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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
about ten minutes of nonstop speech
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 ten | advmod |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 speech | case |
| 5 | nonstop | nonstop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speech | compound |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 minutes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
about fifteen minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 fifteen | advmod |
| 2 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
around ten minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 ten | advmod |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
about ten minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 ten | advmod |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1486-pg503-part73/t10/