Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

Which object did the officers record as found in the narrator's right waistcoat pocket?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, officers · What happens: do, record, find · To what, where: right waistcoat pocket

This is exam question 4 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 officers	det
5	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 record	nsubj
6	record	record	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 record	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	15 pocket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrator	det
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pocket	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 narrator	case
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pocket	amod
14	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pocket	compound
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past	which object		tree rules
2	record	present	the officers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	participle	the officers not said here	the narrator's right waistcoat pocket	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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

white sheets of paper marked with many figures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sheets	amod
2	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marked	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 paper	case
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheets	nmod
5	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 figures	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 figures	amod
8	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	participle	white sheets of paper					with many figures	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with figure=Theme

Option 2

thin white sheets covered with strange black figures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheets	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheets	amod
3	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sheets	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 figures	case
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 figures	amod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 figures	amod
8	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		thin white sheets not said here				with strange black figures	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with figure=Theme

Option 3

thin white sheets with stains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheets	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheets	amod
3	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 stains	case
5	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sheets	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

white sheets marked with figures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sheets	amod
2	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sheets	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 figures	case
5	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 marked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	participle		white sheets not said here					vn image_impression-25.1 «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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