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

How many blokes did it take to heave him up, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many blokes · What happens: take, heave up · To what, where: it, him

This is test 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. 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blokes	amod
3	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	expl
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 heave	mark
8	heave	heave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	csubj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heave	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 heave	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	8 heave	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	many blokes	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	heave up	to-infinitive		him = he					vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nine hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

eight hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

nine hundred and twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 twelve	cc
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 4

nine thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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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