Test 12 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

did they put something on his face after?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: put after · To what, where: something, face

This is test 12 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 put	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put after	past · do-support	they	something		his face			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme on face=Destination

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 bitter-smelling balm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 balm	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smelling	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 bitter	punct
4	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 balm	amod
5	balm	balm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a sweet-smelling ointment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ointment	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smelling	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sweet	punct
4	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ointment	amod
5	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a strong-smelling paste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 paste	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smelling	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 strong	punct
4	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 paste	amod
5	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a sweet-smelling ointment made from herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ointment	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smelling	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sweet	punct
4	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ointment	amod
5	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ointment	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 herbs	case
8	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle		a smelling ointment not said here		herbs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from herb=Material

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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