Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

What was the approximate number of soldiers who, according to the text, fled from the enemy fleet onto the shore?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, accord, flee, fleet · To what, where: approximate number, enemy

This is exam question 4 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	5 number	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 number	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 number	amod
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 number	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 text	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 text	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 text	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 text	det
13	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soldiers	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fled	punct
15	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 text	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 enemy	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 enemy	det
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fleet	obl
19	fleet	fleet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fled	ccomp
20	onto	onto	ADP	_	22 shore	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shore	det
22	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fleet	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 number	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the approximate number		of soldiers	tree rules
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	flee	past				tree rules
4	fleet	infinitive		the enemy	onto the shore	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

No more than thirty thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	ADV	_	5 thousand	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 thousand	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 more	fixed
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not fewer than thirty thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 fewer	advmod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 thousand	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 fewer	fixed
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Not fewer than thirty thousand soldiers from the enemy fleet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 fewer	advmod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 thousand	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 fewer	fixed
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 soldiers	nummod
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 fleet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fleet	det
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fleet	compound
10	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soldiers	nmod

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

Option 4

About thirty thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	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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