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

was he proper stuck or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be

This is test 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. 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 nah	cc
6	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					properly, stuck 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

tied down with strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 strings	case
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie down	participle						with strings	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient

Option 2

held by iron clamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 clamps	case
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clamps	compound
4	clamps	clamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle						by iron clamps	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by clamp=Location

Option 3

tied down with strings to tiny pegs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 strings	case
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tied	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pegs	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pegs	amod
7	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie down	participle						with strings; to tiny pegs	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient

Option 4

pinned by heavy ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pinned	pin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 ropes	case
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ropes	amod
4	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pinned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	participle						by heavy ropes	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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