Test 11 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…
Some of the crowd were well cheeky, weren't they? Who shot the arrows at him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Some, they · What happens: be, not be, shoot · To what, where: arrows
This is test 11 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Some of the crowd were well cheeky, weren't they?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 cheeky | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 crowd | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cheeky | cop |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 cheeky | advmod |
| 7 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheeky | punct |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cheeky | conj |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 were | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 were | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheeky | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Some | cheeky, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | past | they | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Who shot the arrows at him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 shot | nsubj |
| 2 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrows | det |
| 4 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shot | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shot | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 shot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the arrows | at him = he | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at he=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
the guards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the palace cooks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cooks | nsubj |
| 3 | cooks | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present | the palace | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
some of the crowd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 crowd | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 some | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the guards of the royal court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 court | amod |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guards | 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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