Test 11 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…
wagwan, was he trying to bounce?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: try, bounce
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | wagwan | wagwan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trying | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 wagwan | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trying | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bounce | mark |
| 7 | bounce | bounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · progressive | he | wagwan vocative | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bounce not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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
to demand his liberty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 demand | mark |
| 2 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 liberty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demand | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | his liberty | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme liberty=Precondition |
Option 2
to ask for his freedom from the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 ask | mark |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 freedom | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | for his freedom; from the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
to ask for his freedom and a boat home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 ask | mark |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 freedom | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 boat | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 freedom | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | for his freedom and a boat; home property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
to ask for his freedom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 ask | mark |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 freedom | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | for his freedom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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