Test 7 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

how'd he get grub, was it sus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, grub · What happens: get, be · To what, where: grub

This is test 7 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sus	advcl
5	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sus	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sus	nsubj
9	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	he	grub					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grub=Stimulus
2	is	past	grub					suspect 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

baskets carried up ladders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ladders	amod
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
4	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 baskets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry up	participle							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

bowls raised on poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 bowls	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 poles	case
4	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	participle		bowls not said here		poles			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on pole=Destination

Option 3

on carts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	2 carts	case
2	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

sacks lowered by rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 sacks	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 rope	case
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lowered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lower	participle		sacks not said here				by rope	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by rope=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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