Test 9 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…
Was the Emperor, like, taller than his lot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taller | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taller | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taller | punct |
| 5 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 taller | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taller | punct |
| 7 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 lot | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taller | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 taller | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Emperor | than his lot; tall property | 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
by a nail's breadth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 breadth | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nail | det |
| 3 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breadth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 nail | case |
| 5 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
an inch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 inch | det |
| 2 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
by a finger's width
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 width | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 finger | det |
| 3 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 width | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 finger | case |
| 5 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
by a hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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