Test 5 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…
innit wild that they fired arrows at him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: innit, fire · To what, where: arrows
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 innit | xcomp |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 fired | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fired | nsubj |
| 5 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 innit | advcl |
| 6 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fired | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fired | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | imperative | you not said here | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fire | past | they | arrows | at him = he | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at he=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 · ✓ the right answer
more than a hundred arrows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 more | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 arrows | nummod |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
more than a dozen spears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 dozen | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 more | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dozen | det |
| 4 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 spears | nummod |
| 5 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
more than a hundred arrows and some spears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 more | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 arrows | nummod |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spears | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 spears | det |
| 8 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
more than a hundred arrows fired at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 more | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 arrows | nummod |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arrows | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 fired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | participle | hundred arrows not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at once=Destination |
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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