Exam question 2 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

By what method was the narrator transported to the capital city?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, transport · To what, where: narrator

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 method	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 method	nsubj
3	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrator	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 narrator	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 narrator	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
10	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 city	compound
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transported	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 narrator	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the narrator				by method	tree rules
2	transport	participle		the narrator not said here				to the capital city	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

a wheeled wooden engine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 engine	det
2	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 engine	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 engine	amod
4	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wheel	participle							vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a long wheeled wooden engine drawn by horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 engine	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 engine	amod
3	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 engine	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 engine	amod
5	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 engine	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wheel	participle							vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	draw	participle		a long wheeled wooden engine not said here				by horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a large wheeled wooden engine on rails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 engine	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 engine	amod
3	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 engine	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 engine	amod
5	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 rails	case
7	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 engine	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wheel	participle							vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a horse-drawn carriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 carriage	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drawn	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 horse	punct
4	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 carriage	amod
5	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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