Exam question 1 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

Which substance was administered to the narrator by the Emperor's physicians in order to induce unconsciousness?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: physicians · What happens: administer, induce · To what, where: substance, narrator, unconsciousness

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1487 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleeping giant is carried to the capital and chained in a temple» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 substance	det
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 administered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 administered	aux:pass
4	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 narrator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 administered	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 physicians	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Emperor	det
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 physicians	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Emperor	case
12	physicians	physician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 administered	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 order	case
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 physicians	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 induce	mark
16	induce	induce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 administered	advcl
17	unconsciousness	unconsciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 induce	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 administered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer	past · passive	the Emperor's physicians in order	which substance	the narrator				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to narrator=Recipient
2	induce	to-infinitive	the Emperor's physicians in order not said here	unconsciousness					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unconsciousness=Patient

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

a healing tonic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 healing	det
2	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tonic	obl:unmarked
3	tonic	tonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

a potion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 potion	det
2	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a sleeping draught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 draught	det
2	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 draught	amod
3	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a bitter poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 poison	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poison	amod
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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