Test 1 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

yo, so the giant built a stage out of like nine sticks and a hanky, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant · What happens: build · To what, where: stage, nine sticks

This is test 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 built	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	nsubj
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stage	det
8	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	13 sticks	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 sticks	case
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 sticks	case
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sticks	nummod
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stage	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hanky	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hanky	det
16	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sticks	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	6 built	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the giant	a stage		nine sticks and a hanky			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Product

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

Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fixed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixed	nsubj
4	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sticks	nummod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fixed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 square	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 square	det
9	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	he	nine sticks		a square			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he used six sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sticks	nummod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	six sticks					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a row

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fixed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixed	nsubj
4	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sticks	nummod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fixed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 row	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 row	det
9	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	he	nine sticks		a row			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he fixed seven sticks in a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixed	nsubj
4	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sticks	nummod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fixed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ring	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	he	seven sticks		a ring			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

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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