Exam question 3 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

What was the approximate duration of the narrator's chains of restraint?

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

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 duration	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 duration	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duration	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duration	amod
5	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 chains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 narrator	det
8	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chains	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 narrator	case
10	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 duration	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 restraint	case
12	restraint	restraint	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chains	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 duration	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the approximate duration				of the narrator's chains of restraint	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

two yards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

two hundred yards of chain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 yards	nummod
3	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 chain	case
5	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yards	nmod

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

Option 3

three yards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

about twenty yards of iron chain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 yards	nummod
3	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chain	case
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chain	compound
6	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yards	nmod

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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