Test 12 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

how many enemies jumped out and swam for it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many enemies · What happens: jump out, swim

This is test 12 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enemies	amod
3	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 jumped	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swam	cc
7	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swam	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump out	past	many enemies						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swim	past	many enemies not said here					for it	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Twenty thousand, at most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thousand	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 most	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 thousand	nmod

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

Option 2

Thirty thousand, at least, all leaping off their ships at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaping	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 leaping	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaping	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 leaping	nsubj
8	leaping	leap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thousand	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 leaping	compound:prt
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ships	nmod:poss
11	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leaping	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 leaping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap off	gerund	all	their ships		least			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory

Option 3

Thirty thousand or so, at least, and then they all got back on the ships

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 got	obl
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 so	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 thousand	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 least	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 least	case
7	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 thousand	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 got	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 they	det
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 ships	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ships	det
17	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	they	Thirty thousand		the ships	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on ship=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thirty thousand, at least

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thousand	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 thousand	nmod

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

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