Test 10 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

What was the Emperor's sword handle made of, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sword handle · What happens: be, make · To what, where: sword handle

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Emperor	det
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 handle	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Emperor	case
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handle	compound
7	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 handle	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bro	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Emperor's sword handle						tree rules
2	make	participle		the Emperor's sword handle not said here				of bro	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

shining bronze blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blade	amod
3	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund		bronze blade					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blade=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

polished silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 silver	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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