Exam question 1 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…
What is the name of the officer who opposed the release of the Man-Mountain from his obligations?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: officer, Mountain · What happens: be, oppose, obligate · To what, where: name, release
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1488 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 officer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 officer | det |
| 7 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 opposed | nsubj |
| 9 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 officer | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 release | det |
| 11 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opposed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Man | det |
| 14 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 release | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mountain | punct |
| 16 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 name | appos |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 obligations | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 obligations | nmod:poss |
| 19 | obligations | obligation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Mountain | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the name | of the officer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oppose | past | the officer | the release of the Man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent release=Patient | ||||
| 3 | obligate | Mountain | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
Skyresh Flimnap, lord high treasurer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skyresh | Skyresh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lord | nsubj |
| 2 | Flimnap | Flimnap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Skyresh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Skyresh | punct |
| 4 | lord | lord | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 treasurer | amod |
| 6 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lord | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lord | present | Skyresh | high treasurer | tree rules |
Option 2
Flimnap, the treasurer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flimnap | Flimnap | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 treasurer | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 treasurer | det |
| 4 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flimnap | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Skyresh Bolgolam, admiral of the realm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skyresh | Skyresh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Bolgolam | Bolgolam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Skyresh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 admiral | punct |
| 4 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skyresh | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 realm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 realm | det |
| 7 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 admiral | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Skyresh Bolgolam, lord high admiral
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skyresh | Skyresh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lord | nsubj |
| 2 | Bolgolam | Bolgolam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Skyresh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Skyresh | punct |
| 4 | lord | lord | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 admiral | amod |
| 6 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lord | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lord | present | Skyresh | high admiral | tree rules |
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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